Judging Freedom - Uvalde school district suspends its police force

Episode Date: October 7, 2022

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Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Friday, October 7, 2022. It's about 425 in the afternoon on the east coast of the United States, Uvalde. Remember that massacre? Remember that disaster? The Uvalde school district in Uvalde, Texas, where a madman, a young man who had recently graduated from the high school affiliated with that grammar school, went into the school and slaughtered 21 people, two teachers and 19 children. The police showed up and did nothing, absolutely nothing. The state police showed up and did nothing. Eventually, the feds came. There were 376 armed police officers there. The feds raided the place. The feds took out the killer. By then, the students were dead. Some of them had bled to death and their lives might have been saved had the police done the right thing at the right time. Okay, you know

the background. It's a tragedy. To make matters worse, outside that school district, outside that school building was a sign you're entering a gun-free school zone, which of course tells killers who will never obey these signs or the law. They don't by their nature. Come on in. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. You know the background. Why is this newsworthy today? Because today, actually last night, it just came out a few hours ago, the school district board of education, have you ever heard of this? Fired its entire police department. They had already fired the chief, Pete Aragondo, but now Fired its entire police department. They had already fired the chief, Pete Aragondo, but now they fired the entire police department, including a cop, and this

is a very interesting case, by the name of Crimson Elizondo. So Mrs. Elizondo was a state trooper. She was one of the state authorities called in by the locals who froze and did nothing. She also froze and did nothing. She walked into the building for two minutes and then she walked out. And there's a recording of a conversation with her speaking to another cop. And the conversation goes like this. Do you have any children here? No, no, my children are too young for this school.

But if I did have children here, you know damn well I'd be in there. So you'd go in there to save your own children, a normal maternal instinct, but you wouldn't go in there to save others, which is what the police are hired for. She showed up without all of her gear. She didn't have her flak jacket with her. Why a cop would show up at a mass shooting not fully equipped and covered and protected is beyond me. She, there's more to this story, she left the state police and joined the Uvalde school district when the chief was fired. She too was fired today for her lack of bravery and her lack of fidelity to what you expect police to do at the scene. So the school board in Uvalde has done the right thing. Unfortunately, too little and too late. And they have asked the state authorities to provide security for the school district until

they can hire police who will actually do their jobs. I guess they sort of did the right thing by getting rid of these cops who declined to do their jobs. They shouldn't have been cops in the first place. They shouldn't have been there in the beginning. They should never have hired this Crimson Elizondo woman as an armed guard to protect the school as a member of the Uvalde school police department when she couldn't do the same thing when she was a Texas state trooper. This goes from bad to worse. I don't know that this is Greg Abbott's fault, but this can't be helping him in his re-election campaign because the Texas system failed 19 dead children. Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.