I've never supported the death penalty, however:
According to Texas law, felony murder is punishable by state execution. Due to Supreme Court rulings, a key component is acting with reckless indifference to human life.
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There is the reckless indifference to human life.
These parents had the right to save their own children, and that right was denied because the police were too cowardly to risk themselves. Despite being on the scene before the shooter even entered the school, they held up the rescue for a full hour in order to wait for ballistic shields.
You can see parents being held back, some of them literally pinned to the ground. Tasers are out. On the parents of the fucking mass shooting victims.
Just under half of the victims survived. There's no telling yet how many more children would have survived if medical care could have been provided before they bled out in that classroom.
These are accomplices. To child murder. They directly caused more deaths by sheer cowardice, indifference, and assault on the parents.
The only potentially morally defensible use of capital punishment is on the violent actors of the state for extreme crimes against the populace, and it happens to line up with existing punishments on the books in Texas.
Will any US state, in this century, have the political will to even place one of these people on trial for child murder? Of course not. And adventurism is not only insane and immoral, it's also absolutely counterproductive. But it's absolutely within your right to advocate for the fair trial, appeals process, and lethal injection of every mother fucking pig on the grounds of that school.
if you're one of those parents how do you not dedicate your life to getting revenge on those cops
Absolutely the first thing on my mind. They better hope there were no only children in that classroom - that all those parents still have someone who depends on them being alive, or being free. It could break a person.
Fucking pigs. They all have armored vests and semi-auto rifles, which is more than the shooter had, but they had to wait on the SWAT team? Coward pricks
Spineless fucks in the government will applaud and parade the cops around for being heroes after allowing 20 kids to be gunned down even though the cops had more firepower, yet the unarmed parents who were willing to die to save their children and got arrested for it are not seen as victims and not heroes.
are you kidding I don't even think it's legal to personally dislike a cop
Even if they were convicted, every single jury member would be found dead of "unknown causes" within a year.
Is it wrong to think this is a white supremacy thing? That the piggies may have been quiet content with the idea that it's mostly Hispanic kids getting gunned down?
It looked like a lot of them were Hispanic, it's just that police are inherently fascist here. They have no duty to protect, and their training and culture consists of nothing but violent self-preservation.
We need a new public safety force that can be jailed for cowardice and spends its time doing useful social work, unarmed, with no authority to enforce laws against non-violent conduct - as well as training with firearms for these scenarios. The types of people who would join this are totally different, and you could push the demographic even further by requiring vaccines or something. Then you can shift funding to them, and as a bonus they can fight off-duty cops who try to commit fascist coups.
