Sheriff Ruben Nolasco won re-election despite pressure from victims’ families to step down and a Justice Department report finding ‘cascading’ failures among the law enforcement response that day
For nearly two years, a Texas county sheriff has refused to step down after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in 2022.
Instead, on Super Tuesday, Uvalde County sheriff Ruben Nolasco faced voters for the first time in the wake of the massacre.
And he won re-election with roughly 39 per cent of votes against three Republican challengers, according to preliminary results.
The sheriff has repeatedly rebuffed calls to resign or withdraw his candidacy for re-election despite overwhelming public pressure from victims’ families, demands that he face criminal charges, and a federal investigation that detailed a minute-by-minute timeline exposing “cascading” failures in the law enforcement response that day.
I live in Texas, so I deserve to be mistreated because I’m outnumbered, according to you.
Bruh I live in Texas too, and the second that Abbott was re-voted in, in 2022, after the 6 week “Heartbeat Bill”, AND he took Uvalde after his “Coulda Been Worse” comments, that’s when I was like “To hell with this fucking state.”
I vote in every election, even for the piddly local shit, but I do not expect change, and the second that I’m able to, I’m out.
You can only expect people to have compassion for those of us residing in deep red states for so long. Abbott was a popular vote. And he won by a lot.
I’m trying to remain hopeful/optimistic for Allred. I really do think he can usher in an Era of change.
You’re toxic and deserve to be blocked by me, which I am doing now. Grow up and stop proving my point.
Ignoring people because you hate them for being outnumbered is already what you said you were doing.
They were not being toxic, and they were making valid points that you were refusing to debate, by side-stepping them.
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Debate? It was a personal attack because they took my opinion personally. There is such a thing as being exasperated and I have a right to experience that without justification. Am I sorry that they live in a shithole state? Yes. Do I have any more fucks to give? No.
That’s not what happened. They didn’t take your opinion personally, they were pushing back against the assertion of your opinion, debating you. They were not emotional in any way.
And you hit that point way too quickly. Honestly, it seems like you were the one being emotional and taking things personally, and not the person you were responding to.
No, not really. At least not if you are participating on an online forum of conversation. You are polluting the conversational ‘town square’ with your overly emotional responses, and they ruin the conversational experience for the rest of us (which is already borderline here on Lemmy). You really need to take an inner look at how you respond to others in public.
Fair enough (and sorry to hear that, hope the situation changes for you in the future, truly). But that doesn’t mean you get to emotionally dismiss and/or be rude to others, delude yourself to that fact, and when they challenge you on your responses not expect any kind of pushback.
Anyway, take my advice any way you want (I’m not going to respond further), but for the record, it was given sincerely, and not to score Internet points. If we the community don’t strive for a higher standard of intercommunication with each other, then the ‘town square’ goes to shit.
I’m not exasperate with the user, I am exasperated with red states.
I am tired of being part of an oppressed minority yet eveyrone seems to expect that I am the one who has to adjust, I am the one who has to be extra fair to others after a lifetime of the same poeple you would have me give extra room being out to literally have me executed. I am tired of watching states restrict my rights and then be told that I have to actually feel sorry for all the people. It’s a weird thing, honestly, that I who don’t live there should be expected to care for people who live there more than other people who live there. It’s disingenuous. It’s unfair. I’m done with it.
How ironic, I’m blocking you for showing us exactly who you are. Thank you.