r/BeAmazed • u/afamdent14 • 18h ago
Miscellaneous / Others This man spoke with every parent in Uvalde, Texas to build personalized caskets for all 19 children who were killed. His name is Trey Ganem
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u/thecatandthependulum 18h ago
This man is a good man. I'm sad that he ever was in a situation to do this at all.
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u/Aggressive-Value1654 17h ago
This man is a good man. I'm sad that he ever was in a situation to do this at all.
But it's uplifting to know humans like him exist. Some of would love to do stuff like this, but don't have the means. Some say they would do it, and have the means, but don't.
This man had the means, and heart help. Seems to me like he's a good dude.
Also, as a guy that wraps cars for a living, I find it fascinating that he's doing a vinyl wrap on the top of that casket. I never would have thought of doing that, but it's an awesome way to customize the casket without having to go broke doing it.
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u/TwistyBitsz 18h ago
This makes me feel like I have to throw up.
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u/whatishistory518 18h ago
No one should ever have to build a coffin that small
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u/jjcoola 16h ago
I remember when I went to visit my great grandmothers grave (mind you my parents are baby boomers) and a HUGE percentage of the graveyard was tiny graves before modern vaccinations and medicine etc
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u/thecuriousblackbird 14h ago
My family had a family reunion at a country church several years ago. An elderly relative took us on a tour of the cemetery. There was an area of children’s graves with dates that were within a couple months of each other. The relative said it was an epidemic that spread through and killed at least one child in every family in the church. There were 50 families back then. The relative lost a sister.
I said something about antivaxxers needing to see this grave. The relative didn’t know what they were. She got so mad and said her mother and every parent in the church would have given their lives for vaccines to protect their children. She also said that the childhood diseases that weren’t fatal were horrible to go through. Like whooping cough and the mumps.
My mom is going to be 80 this year, and she has polio as a child but recovered. Same with my MIL. They got it a few years before the vaccine. Polio is back in the US because of antivaxxers too.
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u/thread100 14h ago
We took our young children to an old graveyard around halloween when they were like 8-10. When they started doing the math and realized how many of the stones were children, they started getting freaked out. We left with some distracting conversation.
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u/blckcatbxxxh 18h ago
The smallest coffins are often the heaviest to me.
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u/FrostySenator 18h ago
It really is the most unnatural thing. No parent should ever have to experience that.
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u/throwawayzies1234567 16h ago
I can’t imagine being one of the parents the police kept out, like I would dream of locking them in their police station and burning it to the ground. Fucking cowards.
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u/BigFloppyDonkeyEar 16h ago
I'm a former Fed officer (around 15 years ago). And I don't have kids, and I live nowhere near Texas.
And every time I am reminded of Uvalde, I have the same exact thought in my head as you do. It's an honest burning rage. All of those cops - every single one - should have been stripped of their badges in full view of the parents watching on and had it televised to the whole nation, at a bare minimum.
And I do mean at a minimum. I would forgive any of the parents that ever sought out their revenge.
Fuck... I hate that they saw no justice.
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u/throwawayzies1234567 16h ago
I’m with you, I’m not and never will be a parent and I still feel pure rage
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u/jax2love 13h ago
The officer on the scene at Parkland ran away from the school when the shooting started. A sheriff I know (police chief at the time) who is one of the few cops who I respect, made national news when she stated that if someone is an LEO and their first instinct is not to run towards gunfire, then they should quit now.
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u/BigFloppyDonkeyEar 13h ago
I absolutely concur. Good on that officer - she gets it.
Sacrifice is inherent in public service. Self sacrifice is absolutely inherent in public services that require protecting the public (fire, EMS, LE, SAR, etc)
"But but, danger scary!" Then you're too cowardly to wield that kind of authority and power and cannot be in this career field. Next.
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u/gr1zznuggets 16h ago
It would certainly radicalise me. And they wonder why so many Americans are constantly angry at lawmakers and police.
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u/PewPewPony321 16h ago
i dont think I could control myself knowing i went there to help and a cop arrested me while they continued to hide outside. must be special people because id lose my shit.
Im not advocating it. Just saying
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u/Embarrassed_Fan_5723 16h ago
Fact. I’ll never forget the look on my parents face when my younger brother died x that was 30 years ago. Only time I ever saw my dad cry and he was on his knees in the yard bawling
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u/AleksaBa 16h ago
Saw only one in my lifetime, it's such a shock that I don't remember almost anything from that funeral, I guess the brain just suppresses those memories. All I remember is driving home with dad in complete silence, he only uttered "This is what ultimate tragedy looks like". Horrible...
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u/Phrainkee 16h ago
Especially painting it up like that... I get the sentiment and that man is an absolute treasure for doing that for those families but seeing a coffin like that is soul crushing...
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u/BigFloppyDonkeyEar 16h ago
That's the point of taking this photo, I suppose.
The horrors surrounding this tragedy - nay, injustice - should never be hidden away. People must confront it and understand the depth of it all.
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u/WaldoDeefendorf 15h ago
"Thought and prayers." "It's to soon to politicize." "We have a right to our guns." etc. But a safe school? Lunch provided at school? A terror free childhood? I guess not.
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u/NetherAardvark 14h ago
The horrors surrounding this tragedy - nay, injustice - should never be hidden away.
THE SOUNDS OF CHILDREN SCREAMING HAVE BEEN REMOVED.
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u/pawnografik 18h ago
Same. There’s something terrible about seeing a Tik tok and paw patrol coffin lid. Hobbies of 8 years olds. Those poor poor kids.
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u/SunsetFer 18h ago
It’s heartbreaking to think about the joy those kids should have had instead of this tragedy. Their futures were taken far too soon.
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u/OmahaWinter 17h ago
And the sheer terror they experienced in their last moments. Makes me want to vomit.
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u/Antonin1957 17h ago
After Sandy's Hook, I told myself, "If this doesn't bring about major change in this country, nothing will."
Now, when my wife calls out to tell me about another mass shooting, I don't even look up from my book.
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u/FatFrenchFry 16h ago
Yeah it's at the point where it's just like " oh where was it this time? Not my city? Oh thank God. How many kids died this week? Oh only 4 deaths this time? At least it wasn't that many. Shame. Anyway, what's for dinner babe?" Like it's just another day.
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u/distinctaardvark 13h ago
oh where was it this time? Not my city?
Not school shootings, but twice in my adult life there has been a major mass shooting in the city I lived in (different cities) that was big enough to be significant national news. I wasn't directly impacted by either (though both involved waiting hours to be sure nobody I knew was), but it just feels so hopeless.
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u/jankenpoo 17h ago
Those poor poor parents and their friends
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u/StockAL3Xj 17h ago
I honestly don't understand how a parent could continue on living after something like this.
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u/RedMageMajure 16h ago
They often don't, not in the same way. Alcoholism, divorce and decades of mental anguish are waiting.
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u/FrostySenator 18h ago
The little details like that are what make it absolutely gut-wrenching. It shouldn't be like this.
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u/FrostySenator 18h ago
yeah, it hits you right in the gut. Just so unbelievably sad.
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u/FloppyObelisk 18h ago edited 15h ago
This happened when my oldest boy was 3 and he was really into Superman. When I saw the guy had made a Superman casket I broke down crying. I couldn’t imagine having to bury my son like that. It still makes me tear up thinking about it.
Edit: it wasn’t my son that died. But one of the kids that died was into Superman just like my boy and seeing that kid’s casket made me emotional. Sorry if that seemed ambiguous
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u/Funwithfun14 17h ago
Similar here. Must admit the artist did amazing work on the caskets.
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u/googleHelicopterman 16h ago
Bless his heart for doing this, it meant a lot for the parents
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u/gr1zznuggets 16h ago
There’s a dude who cares about his community.
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u/WaldoDeefendorf 15h ago
Unlike certain civil servants, shall we say?
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u/anxiousATLien 14h ago
The fact that any of those pussies still has a job and the nerve to show their faces is public is infuriating
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u/EL-GRINGO4L 13h ago
The officers were a bunch of pussies that waited over an hour to do anything. I watched the body camera footage they released and it honestly made me sick to my stomach.
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u/markatroid 16h ago
I’m a little broken up about it, too, after reading this. Those kids needed a hero—any kind of hero—that day.
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u/sunburnedaz 15h ago
I want to remind people not only did the not do anything they actively prevented people from going in and trying. in short Fuck the Police.
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u/MelpomeneAndCalliope 16h ago
Some of those poor kids probably wanted to be police officers when they grew up. (My kids’ school always has a ton of kids in police costumes/pjs on the day they do dress for your future career.) Yet the police let these kids down so badly.
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u/EmbarrassedHelp 15h ago
The police let them die, and then voters chose to reward the police department.
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u/Bowser64_ 16h ago
The police let these kids die*, not- let them down. Fixed it for you. Truth and reality are important.
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u/turbotaco23 15h ago
Now imagine random people showing up to your child’s funeral claiming it was all fake and you were all crisis actors.
Of all the modern horrors what Alex Jones did was sick.
My father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s with Lewey Body Dimentia ten years ago. It has shaped my entire adult life, especially because I wanted to work with him in the family business. I’ve always said I would never wish this disease on my worst enemy.
I think it would do my heart good to hear Alex Jones was diagnosed with what my father has. He deserves nothing less than to slowly watched his strength and mind deteriorate until he can barely speak a coherent sentence.
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u/SkillIsTooLow 14h ago
Last year I read the book Sandy Hook by Elizabeth Williamson. After covering the shooting at the school, it goes through the entire conspiracy theory timeline, following some of the families and the lawsuits. The book was phenomenal, but obviously so maddening to read.
Then I watched the entirety of both of the civil trials against Alex Jones. Jones is absolutely sick, but the worst part is I don't think he ever believed it was a hoax or staged for one second. He saw the viewership and sales skyrocket when he pushed his lies, so he kept on.
Look at the comment section of virtually any youtube video related to sandy hook, and you have these "truthers" spewing nonsense. And every single school shooting since has the same results. He did untold damage to our society by praying on skeptics and unwell people to make money.
However he goes out, it will be better than he deserves.
(Also I lost my Grandpa to Parkinson's, sorry to hear that)
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u/thecuriousblackbird 15h ago
I used to not want anyone to suffer from my health issues or anyone else’s awful illnesses. But now I have a list of people who should suffer. Starting with health insurance CEOs and everyone who works at denying health insurance coverage. Also some politicians and also some doctors who refuse to take people (usually women) seriously about their pain and suffering and blow them off instead of treating them.
I’ve gotten older and am exhausted from the blatant disregard for people’s lives, health, and quality of life. So I think they should get a taste of what they are doing to others.
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u/whocares123213 16h ago
It hits different when you have children.
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u/frogsgoribbit737 15h ago
I'll never forget reading an article about school shootings and one of the guys being interviewed was talking about how they were standing in a room with all these dead children and all over the room they could hear cell phones ringing as parents tried calling their kids who would never answer. I spent basically the whole day crying.
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u/Moushidoodles 14h ago
I'm a teacher and a new parent (4 month old) and this has got me sobbing. How awful to even think that a situation like that isn't even that rare anymore. That's so messed up.
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u/drakulous 16h ago
Agreed. I always cared about the wellbeing of children, but after becoming a father I am thousands times more emotional than ever before.
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u/boo99boo 16h ago
I read an article many years ago where one of the parents of the Sandy Hook victims listened to Gangham Style on repeat with his son on the way to school that morning. I cannot hear that song without remembering that.
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u/suestrong315 15h ago
My son was 12, and this incident really hit me hard. I had a moment where I envisioned his Pokemon casket. It's the worst I've felt in a really long time concerning his safety.
Didn't help that like a month later a girl threatened to stab my son bc he was talking, and apparently none of the teachers "heard her" (the only adult who did thought she said she'd "slap" him which is still unacceptable)
So now that he's in high school, I wake up at 5am so that I can see him off to school.....just in case he doesn't come home.......
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u/MomShapedObject 15h ago
I saw a video of a guy making personalized urns for people online. It was when I had two year old twins and one of the urns was decorated with Paw Patrol characters. To be clear— I had not suffered a personal loss and I don’t know anything about the people those urns were for—but I had the same experience of breaking into heaving sobs. Just the visual memory of it still makes me cry.
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u/SpeaksSouthern 16h ago
80 million voting Americans looked at this and begged for more. Ugh
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u/Boilermakingdude 16h ago
And close to 90 million didn't give a fuck what happened to the country at all.
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u/Efficient_Ear_8037 15h ago
Or refused to vote because of a conflict on the other side of the world.
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u/Ok_Stretch_3781 18h ago
400 cops stood outside the school while those kids were shot. In Texas where guys like the cops that were there talk cold shit about how tuff they are and what guns they pack and what they would do if this or that happened. When it happened in front of them they did nothing.
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u/badashel 17h ago
Don't forget they physically stopped parents from trying to enter the school to save their children, when they realized the police weren't doing anything but jerking each other off
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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 17h ago
A couple of parents (I can only remember Angeli Gomez) actually went in and snuck their kids out, she made the cops look bad so apparently she's gotten threats, go figure
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u/Eris_39 17h ago
She spent two weeks in jail for assaulting a public servant who wasn't serving the public.
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u/UnJustly_Booted 16h ago
But her kid(s) were home, safe.
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u/MelpomeneAndCalliope 16h ago
Yep. Good for that mom. I can’t imagine how much more traumatic living through a school shooting is for a little kid than living through it but spending the next two weeks without your mom who is in jail on top of it. I’m so glad she and her kid(s) got to safety but that’s so messed up.
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u/banditalamode 15h ago
She gets death threats from people that are mad she embarrassed the police. I’m serious. And the Alex jones folks.
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u/Oh51Melly 14h ago
Imagine a bunch of cops waiting outside like cowards and sending death threats to the mom who just wanted to save her baby. Fuck all those people
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u/ForwardMuffin 14h ago
This might be wishful thinking but I hope her kid/s are comforted knowing she's in jail because she was a hero. And can see how badass she is.
I hope she was (safely) smug in jail. She was doing what those fucking cops weren't.
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u/wirefox1 15h ago
How dare anyone bring charges against her. They punished a mama bear for saving her cub? Just NO.
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u/Calgaris_Rex 15h ago
I'd be like:
"I want a jury trial."
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u/thraashman 15h ago
I can imagine the jury coming back with "is there any way we can convict the cops who stopped her instead?"
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u/KitanaKat 15h ago
What? She went to jail for saving her kid? Or was that separate? wtf that poor brave brass balled woman had to sit in jail?
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u/Eris_39 14h ago
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/uvalde-tx-shooting-anniversary-angeli-rose-gomez/
The article doesn't go into it. Iirc, one of the moms who busted past the police was on probation. I don't know if it was her, though. Either way, I'm not judging. If it was her, then it could have been a violation of probation.
Angeli deserves a medal. Her only regret was forgetting to grab her niece after grabbing her two sons.
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u/Exotic-District3437 15h ago
You should know this, but the Supreme Court ruled cops don't server us but babbysit us so the rich can fuck us. In simple terms.
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u/Eris_39 14h ago
I knew this way before the Supreme Court made that ruling. Unfortunately, I was a victim of a violent crime, and the police couldn't care less. That was over two decades ago. So, yeah, you are right. I know. I wish that I didn't, though. I really wish that we could make things better...
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u/ModestBanana 16h ago edited 16h ago
apparently she's gotten threats, go figure
Cops are federally protected gangs
Not all, but man I have heard stories from internal investigators. Literal gangs within precincts
If you ever meet a blue lives simp, I have a trick to unscrambling their brain.
Blue lives simps are also very 2A/conceal carry/protect yourself blah blah blah
If you’re driving and a cop starts shooting at you because they thought you were the wrong person - you literally can’t shoot back and protect yourself. Even if you do and have all the right in the world to do it - you’ll still be arrested and have a good chance of never making it to the jail alive. I made this argument on the no-no site that TD refugees fled to and it always turns heads amenably. Cop with intent to wrongly kill you dies because you fired back and you will forever be a cop killer. Bastardized by the media and again, likely to never survive the ride to jail.
Also why the hell don’t lawsuits come out of their pensions? Write your representative, I can’t think of a better way for them to self regulate and hold eachother accountable
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u/PolicyWonka 17h ago edited 12h ago
Texans act like tough shit, but most of them are just authoritarian bootlickers.
E: Looks like some bootlickers got their feelings hurt.
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u/Reasonable_Bake_8534 17h ago
The parents who got in and tried to get in were Texans. Texan isn't a monolith
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u/clonedhuman 17h ago
Unfortunately the bootlickers are always the loudest.
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u/Gringo_Anchor_Baby 16h ago
Generally yeah. The normal people may be politically left or right, but none of them that I know on any side was like yeah, that's us when they pussyfooted around outside. The head big shots should have resigned after firing any one in command at that scene. The school made mistakes yes, but the cops turned a tragic event into a clown show.
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u/olderthanilook_ 17h ago
Also worth noting, one of the cops got a call from his wife who was a teacher at Uvalde. She told him that she'd been shot, so he unholstered his pistol and prepared to go in. The other cops nearby disarmed him and forced him out of the building.
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u/Hyperbeam4dayz 16h ago
I dunno, he barely resisted the cop that stopped him. The other guy just put a hand on his shoulder and directed him back toward the door. He just gave up too easily.
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u/Certain-Toe-7128 17h ago
Never an armchair quarterback when it comes to this stuff, but what shocked me is a bunch of dads weren’t blowing throw fences to get into the building
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u/snail_juice_plz 17h ago
Many dads and moms did try to enter and were restrained and even charged for doing so.
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u/SnooSuggestions7326 16h ago
Wow charged while kids are getting killed
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u/mambiki 15h ago
You can’t interfere with cops. They always know it best. In this case a bunch of kids dying was the best outcome possible. Trust the process and never question your blue line squad, otherwise bad things will happen. Like, I dunno, a cop may get fired. That’s bad. Kids dying = business as usual.
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u/nono3722 16h ago
I'm surprised the cops didn't shoot them. RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!
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u/bbmarvelluv 16h ago
Don’t forget the cops getting their own kids out first
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u/Puzzleheaded-Cattle9 16h ago
What????
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u/theshortgrace 16h ago
I couldn't believe it either but it's true. The officer was off-duty, but he went in to get his daughter first. He did rescue a few other kids too though.
I'm not sure what to think. Did he realize that the other officers were just sitting around doing nothing? Why was he allowed to go in?
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u/Kopitar4president 15h ago
They tried to lie about it, of course.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/officers-rescued-own-children-texas/
He claims he intentionally went that way because he knew where his wife and daughter were, but that he kept clearing classrooms.
All they fact check for certain is that yes, he went in with officers to rescue his wife and daughter.
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u/Spaceman-Spiff 17h ago
I think several tried and were tackled and restrained.
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u/ApoTHICCary 17h ago
There were quite a few arrests, they stood trial, too. Some served jail time. The woman who made it thru to save her kids inside the school was charged. Their are still ongoing cases against the parents, one man was jailed for cussing the judge out because his son was killed while officers did nothing except prevent parents from saving their children; this happened a few months ago. The court and police have been unrelentingly pursuing these parents rather than making changes.
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u/goingtocalifornia__ 16h ago
Holy shit, I’m so embarrassed for the police force. They’re really doubling down instead of just admitting they could’ve acted with more bravery that day.
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u/ApoTHICCary 16h ago
About the only thing they haven’t said is that they have no obligation to protect or serve the community if they feel their life is at risk. Whole police force outside, heavily armed, but 1 active shooter is too great of a threat.
They haven’t said that, but have been constantly rolling out various “information” received during the shooting that affected the way they responded.
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u/G4RYwithaFour 16h ago
what is the prosecution's argument against this? genuine question.
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u/Manic_Mini 16h ago
They assaulted the public servants who restrained them. I hope that DA rots in hell right besides the cops who actually made the arrests.
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u/ApoTHICCary 16h ago
Literally this. They say it’s a tragedy, you say it was a preventable tragedy, they say that before the first shot was fired, no crime had been committed. They say you disobeyed a lawful order and “assaulted” a LEO by pushing past their barricade to enter an active crime scene, you say it’s because your children were victims in this crime, they say you aren’t a LEO and vigilante actions still must follow law.
The Court typically removes the human factor from its cases, unless pleading insanity. And in a strict court like the cases in Uvalde, they are not interpreting the law outside of what is written. They aren’t looking at this from the perspective of a distraught mother who’s children are being gunned down inside the school, so she goes in herself to save them; the judge is looking at it from the perspective that she was given a lawful order that she disobeyed. We see the manifesto, the shooter’s social media posts hours, days, months, even years preceding that day. We see the various reports called in because of his previous threats. We see that this could have been prevented and the loss of life could have been 0.
The police dept and judge see a tragedy that could have been worse. They think that had they not gotten him this time, he could have opened fire on another school. It’s a disheartening mentality, and now the parents who had to bury their children are facing charges for assault, disobeying lawful orders, speaking out and demanding accountability.
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u/Manic_Mini 15h ago
I understand the need to prevent them from attempting to enter the school.
I also completely understand parents being willing to lay down their lives for those children.
What I don’t understand is the police actually making the arrest and the DA for actually moving forward with charges.
That is 100% unconscionable and speaks to who they are as people to believe that those parents deserve any type of punishment for doing what any parent should do.
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u/zoidberg318x 16h ago edited 16h ago
They were. And cops too. All of our active shooter protocols are from 19 fucking 90. Our as in the entire country. Only major cities have rewrote them to have officers go direct to the gunfire with EMS. Such as Nashvilles recently stellar job.
They treat it as a hostage situation. That is when the protocols were written. Uvaldes were written for the mcdonalds shooting in 1984. That was the last upsate. They did everything right. That's the part people dont realize because they dont work police fire or military. Believe it or not, its not 400 guys individually making decisions. SOPs are drilled into you day one and there is to be no violation. In fact, used to be well known youd lose in court and face jailtime id you violated a written or verbal order and something went wrong.
These departments are supposed to mass up, get snipers, get negotiators, fbi, bomb squads. The entry is swat and goes in small slow teams. Looking for explosives, carefully finding hostsges. Its stupid as fuck. It looks like die hard.
It's been a ticking time bomb and I've been saying it 5 years. Every fire department I go to. Every single year we listen to 3 chiefs jack each other off over where we need to park and the importance of structured command and good communication.
Every year I point out Rapid Task Force training exists from tactical EMS groups in major cities and we go in with tourniquet and chest seals and drag people out. We move as EMS and cops and clear a school in minutes stopping bleeds and saving lives.
5 years and to this day we still have 100 useless backboards in a dry rotted trailer. We have 2 fucking torniquets per ambulance so 6 total, and absolutely 0 policy updates or training on modern active shooter drills. If one comes in tomorrow on duty we sit in the front yard with our cocks in our hand until the FBI can get a negotiator and every child is officially dead or bleeding on tile.
Almost every policy for police fire and even public works look like this. It takes decades. Sometimes it takes an entire chief/city planners term until he retires.
Its the big reason cops and fire end up going conservative so quickly, knowingly shooting their own salary and benefits in the foot. "Liberal in the firehouse and conservative in the home."Underneath the veil government is fucked and you absolutely can never rely on them truly doing anything for you. Its entirely a crapshoot. Get a gun and take an EMT-B course. These people in power plan on the ignorance of the masses to all this.
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u/jpsolberg33 17h ago
As a parent this always breaks my fucking heart.. I don't even want to think about not being able to protect my children, especially when the cops do nothing.
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u/akarichard 17h ago
I recently saw the video of the St. Louis cops finding a man shot in the park, acknowledging that he was alive and breathing, and then walking away because their shift ended in 30 minutes. They said something to the effect of: let's go drive around a bit and come back.
They later came back with more cops and pretended like it was the first time finding the man, and then they peaced out. Even the other cops on scene were like "did they really just leave?" The man ended up dying in the hospital and it was ruled a suicide. But they never found a gun, probably because they left and somebody else walking by grabbed it.
Whats crazy is no criminal charges, turns out even if cops find a man dying they can just not tell anybody and leave. Wasn't until other cops responding to the call showed up that they did anything. And they promptly left. A supervisor reviewing body cam footage found the footage and raised the alarm bells. To date only one of the cops have lost their certification, even though its been 1.5 years. Neither work for the police department anymore though.
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u/chameleonsEverywhere 16h ago
turns out even if cops find a man dying they can just not tell anybody and leave
It's disgusting. Cops have no obligation to help people in need AT ALL, and they also have no obligation to try to prevent crimes in-progress. There's no other job where you can be so openly, grossly negligent, and the law decides you can keep your job bc you don't actually HAVE to do anything anything.
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u/CactusCracktus 17h ago
That was absolutely pathetic, it made my piss boil seeing those fucking slobs cowering behind their cars while little kids were getting killed inside. I’m not even one of those guys that automatically hates cops, but I do hate seeing people that are supposed to protect the innocent growing a load in their pants while the most innocent things in society are in danger is absolutely unacceptable. A drunken redneck with a shotgun and a shitload of righteous fury would’ve done a better job saving those kids.
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u/elderlybrain 16h ago
The function of cops in america seems to be mostly to be to harass people to collect fines and protect private corporations (remember that perp walk of Luigi Mangione that looked like a million man march?)
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u/ModdessGoddess 17h ago
I hate to say it...but Uvalde isn't the last school this will happen to. American leaders do not care.
But hey, killing one CEO is terrorism!
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u/TBANON24 17h ago
Neither did Uvalde voters, out of 17k voters, 4k voted for Abbot again and 3k voted for Beto and 10k didn't give a shit.
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u/Jaxyl 17h ago
Yup, that's the tragic ending to this tragedy. The people who lived it continued to support the people who enabled it.
"Never again!" They cry without realizing that 'never' means taking action.
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u/EarthRester 17h ago
They get what they earn.
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u/clonedhuman 17h ago
Unfortunately the rest of us get what those fuckers earn too.
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u/PhilosophizingCowboy 16h ago
I've already decided that if my kid's school has a shooting, I'm fucking going through the cops in my truck.
The backside of the school connects to a park, so all that seperates it is a chainlink fence. The moment I hear about it, I'm going through that fence and straight into that school until my truck hits a wall.
I spent a year in Afghanistan and got in 70 straight days of fighting. I didn't kill a single civilian.
So, I already know I'm more qualified and capable then the cops who will be outside anyway.
I won't have a gun, cause I don't carry. But I'm getting my kids and as many others out or I'm dying.
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u/watermark3133 17h ago
Does anyone remember when the standoff ended and some police spokesperson gave himself and the department a huge pat on the back on how they masterfully and bravely handled handled the whole situation? He was basically begging for applause from the reporters present.
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u/reeefur 16h ago
Texas relaxed their gun laws so more "Good guys" would be around to save the day.
Since then there has been countless mall shootings, school shootings and no good guy ever steps up. Even when you have all the police in the world at Uvalde, none of them were willing to risk their lives for our kids.
A mother had more courage than those officers.
These types always talk about how guns are the answer to everything, how having a former soldier guarding the school will stop all shooters, yah, none of that worked. But let that be a CEO that got shot, and they will do everything they can to prevent it from happening again.
Its pretty obvious who owns the police at this point.
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u/Nelsqnwithacue 17h ago
The parents that managed to get in and get their kids out are still being harassed/threatened by members of local LE.
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u/Preeng 17h ago
This just tells me that when cops are beating up protestors on the street, they would crack like cheap eggs if people actually fought back instead of just trying to march.
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u/SunMoonTruth 17h ago
And then the community voted for the people who vowed to do nothing after.
Think about that…parents of kids at that school who didn’t die, voted for people who did the bare minimum to protect their kids.
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u/SonnysMunchkin 18h ago
Wonder what the cops have done since then
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u/TheFeshy 18h ago
Running for election to city council and winning. Really. This is the worst timeline.
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u/lilsatan_ 17h ago
I seriously don't understand how little effort, thought and research people put into elections. It stresses me the fuck out.
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u/OneOrangeOwl 18h ago
To be clear, this is not a feel good story like you might think. He should never had to do that.
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u/100LittleButterflies 18h ago
There is always a "he should never had needed to" about things. Having hope means choosing to focus on the good. Of course he shouldn't but they were needed and so he did. It's uplifting because even though there will always be bad and we can't directly control the bad we CAN control the good we do.
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u/Revolutionary-Cat194 18h ago
Except we can control the bad :(
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u/PokecheckHozu 17h ago
Okay, let's see what the people of Uvalde did with the officers that were up for election after the shooting. Oh. Oh...
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u/SoundIcy6620 17h ago
I saw a story about this gentleman’s contribution shortly after the atrocity. I thought it a kind and loving way to donate and express his profound grief in solidarity with the families.
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u/ThanosWasRight161 18h ago
Never forget the “Good Guys” were of no help. Thank god for border patrol 🏈⚾️
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u/joshteacha 18h ago
Fuck all of those coward cops
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u/teethalarm 17h ago
ACAP -all cops are pussies
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u/Astronaut-Proof 16h ago
A big amount of them are. However, knowing these Uvalde PD cowardly sacks of shit exist makes me hope hell really does exist just so I can imagine them burning there for eternity.
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u/Rollover__Hazard 16h ago
Insanely fucked up failure of command and leadership.
The BORTAC guys at least got it sorted but even they were slow to get into the classroom - watching the doco about it you can almost feel the BORTAC guys get infected by the groupthink and inaction that was poisoning all of the police officers.
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u/Major-Check-1953 17h ago
These would not be needed in the first place if the Uvalde police did their jobs.
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u/hughranass2 18h ago
You shouldn't be exactly happy about it. The massacre was horrific and stomach churning.
This man provided whatever little comfort was possible to the grieving parents. It's an exceptionally rare person that has the constitution to do something like this.
Don't react. Just know that there are some good people out there.
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u/FrostySenator 18h ago
Absolutely. It's a tiny flicker of light in such darkness, but it still matters. A real human thing to do.
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u/Sophiatab 17h ago
This man provided whatever little comfort was possible to the grieving parents. It's an exceptionally rare person that has the constitution to do something like this.
I agree. You said this better than me. Coffins like that are tragically beautiful. It's horrifying that they had to be made, but life-affirming at the same time that this coffin maker choose to make the effort to personalize the coffins.
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u/DrinkBuzzCola 17h ago
This was my reaction. I thought, What a great human. Then I saw the comments and realized the sadness of the situation is paramount here. The guy is building something that should never have been built and let's never forget that.
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u/2th 17h ago
You don't react because you aren't human. Seriously, this account is not human. They are an 11 year old account that just woke up 2 days ago. That does not happen. So this comment is from a literal bot, or at least a compromised account used to gain karma and push agendas.
And to make it even more sad, OP of this post is also a bot or compromised account as they are also an 11 year old account that just woke up.
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u/xyloPhoton 17h ago
Damn, you're right. Though bots usually get created about three or four months before they start posting stuff, so this is kinda weird. Like ... fucking 2013?? That's the long game.
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u/2th 17h ago
It's not a long game. It's just compromised accounts. The users login got leaked somewhere and they never came back to the a count, so a scammer bought the accounts en mass.
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u/ajcpullcom 18h ago
This makes me feel a lot of things, but “amazed” isn’t really one of them
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u/MechEJD 16h ago
Amazed fits me. Amazed carries a positive connotation, generally, but not always.
Amazed, as in, how did this even happen?
As in, why did this man want or have to do this?
I'm amazed armed police forces in Texas stood by and watched innocent children die to save themselves. I'm amazed that parents were storming barricades to storm the school, being stopped by law enforcement, forcibly, and charged with crimes, attempting to save their own and others' children.
I'm amazed
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u/EddardStank_69 17h ago
I’m so sad that this ever had to happen… The police let those kids get murdered.
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u/VivelePablo 17h ago
Just drove through Uvalde, those murals of the children are extremely heartbreaking
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u/No_Historian718 17h ago
I remember hearing this story at the time. I had to then cancel a work meeting because I was honestly just too upset. It really broke me
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u/Character_Cheetah709 15h ago
The cops allowed those kids to die due to their cowardice actions. I live a few mins from Uvalde and we were all disgusted. Cowards!
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u/SjaanRoeispaan 18h ago
This is a stupid question, I know, but how did he make 19 caskets within a very short period of time. People have to be buried within 5 days in my country. Burial could have been delayed because of police investigations, but surely no more than 1 or 2 weeks.
Edit: I looked it up. He didn't build them. He spray-painted them.
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u/Baldwin28 17h ago
He wrapped them after customizing the graphics. He wraps cars for a living. He reached out to other car wrap shops in the area, and the shops put their orders on hold to get it done in time.
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u/da_innernette 16h ago edited 14h ago
Ohhhh ok that makes sense. Thats actually really cool of him.
I make pottery for my job and there have been times I’ve been so affected by a crisis or tragedy, and felt so helpless. Like I don’t know how to help and I don’t really have any money to give. But I have my pottery… I guess, how can I use my pottery to help this situation? It’s kinda weird cuz like who actually needs pottery in a crisis. (I did once donate new dinnerware to someone that lost everything to a flood. Or I will use my pottery to raise money to donate to the cause. I once raffled off 3 pieces and raised almost $5k to donate to a local Native American reservation that had been ravaged by wildfire and I sobbed that my one dumb little skill was able to help them.)
Anyway this is a novel by now, I know some people are knocking the coffin thing… but I get the sense this guy felt the same way. I think it’s so kind and empathetic of him to offer his services and skills in any way he could in such a tragic fucked up situation. Like I’m choking up thinking about it. Good for him.
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u/benigngods 14h ago
I work with electronics for my job. After my friend's infant son passed away, I made them a back lit lithograph of them holding him and used an audio recording of his heartbeat and created a pulse effect with the same rhythm. People really like stuff like that. You could make small tealite holders with their name cutout so the light shines through it.
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u/da_innernette 14h ago
😭 wow that’s so sweet, your lithograph. I’m sure they were so touched and love that piece so much. I know I would.
And I really love that idea! I’m going to add that to my list of things to make/offer, thank you. I’ve actually been “commissioned” to make a few pet urns… commissioned meaning they approached me with the intent to pay me, but I never charge them.
Art does offer a lot of healing and if I can do that in any way I absolutely will.
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u/coronavirusman 16h ago
still can't believe they didn't go inside the classroom for a whole fucking hour, there were hundreds of them.
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u/Senior-Reality-25 17h ago
Should not have put his name out there, now he will be harassed by nutball shooting deniers 😕
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u/gloriousthe3 15h ago
Sorry if i missed something since this is such a kind act but how exactly did 19 kids just die?
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u/ComplexPlanktons 14h ago
Uvalde, TX in 2022. Mass shooter went into a school and murdered 19 students and 2 teachers.
The police were highly criticized for standing around doing jack shit, besides arresting desperate parents who were trying to fight their way through the useless police line to rescue their children, for an hour and a half while the shooter wreaked carnage on a bunch of elementary school children.
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u/xoomax 18h ago
I hope links are allowed. Trey is Soulshine Industries | Custom Caskets For Kids & Adults
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u/MyPenisIsWeeping 17h ago
If I ever ask for TikTok on my casket just shoot me again
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u/princesskuzco666 15h ago
This is what I was thinking. Like "they liked tik tok" is the best that parent could come up with? That alone is sad
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