💬 Opinion May 29, 2026 · Natasha Lennard

After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students.

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After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students.
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Police officers stand outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 25, 2022. Photo by Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images




If there’s one thing we know about the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 children and two teachers dead, it is this: The police failed to stop it. This was not for an absence of well-funded, trained officers on the scene. They were there.



Rather than placing themselves potentially in harm’s way, however, the cops waited outsid

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