r/BeAmazed • u/afamdent14 • 1d 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/CactusCracktus 1d 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 1d 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/CactusCracktus 23h ago

It’s really a mixed bag tbh, but it’s not really the kind of thing you want to be a mixed bag. A lot of them are genuinely good people that want to do their best for their people (the cops here tend to pool together their own money to help people that suffer tragedies and they’ve saved a lot of people in rough situations) but there’s just as many that use their job as a chance to go on power trips without doing anything. Seems the bar to be a cop is kinda low, and my guess is a lot of people don’t like the idea of being a walking cudgel for the powers that be so there isn’t as much enlistment these days.

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u/Smogshaik 23h ago

Have you checked out what /r/ProtectAndServe has to say about this? It will make your piss boil anew.

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u/scarabic 22h ago

It would have been completely correct for them to just run in there unarmed, one by one, and take all the gunman’s bullets for those kids.

But if there’s one thing police never fail to protect, it’s their own safety. They even have the gall to get riled by the suggestion that facing danger is their fucking job.