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Learn about the tragic loss of Trooper Kevin Alexis Ramirez Vasquez, a dedicated Texas Highway Patrol officer who sacrificed his life in the line of duty.

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Florida aided Texas’ border security initiative under scrutiny for ‘inhumane’ actions

Gov. Ron DeSantis has spent millions of dollars this year to support Texas in deterring migrants from entering the country through its border security initiative. Now, some of those efforts are coming under scrutiny amid reports that Texas officers were ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into…

Miami Herald

State investigating claim that DPS troopers were told to push migrants back into the Rio Grande and deny them water

The Office of the Inspector General is investigating the claims, which include pushing small children and women with nursing babies back into the river and turning away a 4-year-old girl who later passed out on the riverbank from the heat.

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White House condemns ‘abhorrent’ reports of Texas troopers being told to push migrant children into Rio Grande

A Texas trooper sends an email to his superior voicing concern about the safety of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border

The Independent UK

Outcry as Texas to install ‘buoy barrier’ in Rio Grande to deter border crossings

Rightwing governor Greg Abbott unveils new measures at US-Mexico border condemned by critics as ‘chilling’

The Guardian - US

‘He Failed to Signal’: When DPS Traffic Stops Turn Deadly

Shandra Hodge speaks out about her son’s death at the hands of state troopers in 2019.

Texas Observer

Why Take Responsibility When You Can Blame Somebody Else?

The year’s highlights in buck passing feature petulant politicians, brazen bureaucrats, careless cops, loony lawyers, and junky journalists.

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2022: A year in which public figures brought their A blame

For many politicians, bureaucrats, cops, lawyers and journalists, the buck didn’t stop anywhere.

Chicago Sun-Times

Amid fallout from the Uvalde shooting, Texas DPS wants $1.2 billion for academy and active-shooter training facility

DPS is asking lawmakers to approve a $467 million active-shooter facility as a “down payment” for the training academy. “You play like you practice,” Director Steve McCraw said.

The Texas Tribune

New Uvalde video shows officers talking about fears of getting shot outside as gunman killed children inside

‘I’m not trying to get clapped out,’ one Texas DPS trooper says in the footage

The Independent UK

Texas DPS chief Steve McCraw says his agency “did not fail” at Uvalde school shooting

At a public meeting where families that lost children in the school shooting said he should resign, McCraw said members of the Department of Public Safety made mistakes. But he said he’ll step down only “if DPS as an institution failed the families.”

The Texas Tribune

After Uvalde CISD hires former trooper, lawmaker and parents call for DPS chief to resign

The Texas state senator who represents Uvalde, alongside the parents of the children killed in the state’s deadliest school shooting, are calling on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s director to resign following reports a former trooper who responded to the massacre was hired as a school district police officer.

Tribune News Service

5 Texas DPS officers face investigation into Uvalde school shooting response

Two officers on site during the shooting were suspended.

Axios

Texas Department of Public Safety investigating how 91 of its troopers and Rangers responded to Uvalde school shooting

The department’s officers made up nearly one-fourth of the 376 law enforcement members who responded to Texas’ deadliest school shooting. Announcement of the inquiry came one day after a report criticized police response to the massacre.

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Reason

Uvalde Shooting Report Undermines Calls To Ban Guns and 'Back the Blue'

Only you can be relied upon to protect you and your loved ones. Ignore anybody who claims otherwise.

Al Jazeera

New video of Uvalde school shooting shows slow police response

Officers are seen arriving at the Texas school and taking cover; after 77 minutes, they exchange fire with the shooter.

Axios

Uvalde families, officials angry over early release of shooting footage

The footage shows police in the hallways of Robb Elementary School, responding to the shooting.

WEKU

The Uvalde schools police chief resigns from city council

Pete Arredondo stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.

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The Independent UK

Uvalde schools' police chief resigns from City Council

The Uvalde school district’s police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Uvalde was an ‘abject failure,’ but there’s more to the story

We wish that we had a clear explanation for law enforcement’s tragically slow response to a gunman threatening and then murdering 19 children and two teachers in their elementary school in Uvalde. That, however, requires a greater commitment to transparency.

Wales Online

Uvalde police chief put on leave after response to Texas school shooting branded ‘abject failure’

The mass shooting at Robb Elementary School left 19 students and two teachers dead

The Independent UK

Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo put on leave as tactics deemed ‘abject failure’

Police scrutinised for hour-long delay in engaging gunman who killed 21

The Independent UK

Uvalde school police chief on leave after mass shooting

The Uvalde school district’s police chief has been put on leave following allegations that he erred in his response to a mass shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead

Axios

Uvalde schools police chief put on administrative leave

Arredondo was put on leave due to the lack of clarity that remains in Uvalde shooting investigation.

Salon

Cops detained Uvalde teacher's husband

Longtime Uvalde Officer Ruben Ruiz had conducted the district's active-shooter drill just weeks earlier

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