I hopes she wins and dismantles the police department for being a useless waste of money.
Don’t dismantle it. Launch an investigation, bring charges, publicize the trial, convict the officers, and lock them up.
And then dismantle the department.
Is this the same woman the cops threatened with a probation violation if she didn’t stop being so vocal about the extent of their worthlessness?
Regardless, I wish her all the best and hope she succeeds!
Edit: Not the same woman, but good time to remind people that they were scumbags all the way through even after the shooting was done. https://www.newsweek.com/uvalde-mom-who-saved-kids-school-shooting-says-police-threatened-her-1712842
A mother who ran into Robb Elementary School to rescue her two children during a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, last week says police threatened to violate her probation for speaking about the incident to reporters.
The woman who is now running for mayor in Uvalde, Kimberly Mata-Rubio, was featured prominently in a Washington Post article a couple months ago regarding lack of police accountability and what the families are trying to do about it. She’s already done far more personally than any of the Republicans involved up the political chain. If she wins, Uvalde will be better for it.
Well worth the read but intense, so be forewarned.
Regular link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/24/uvalde-school-shooting-police-response/
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3OcI0R7
If she wins, Uvalde will be better for it.
That was my going in position, but I appreciate the additional info nonetheless. Thanks!
Good for her, hope she can win, and make some good changes. Though I’m not super hopeful.
She won’t win. The majority of the town voted Republican after the shooting. They don’t care.
You’re getting downvoted, but you’re right. Voters already had a chance to make a difference and chose not to.
Good!
She will most likely be terrorized by the police until she wins, but I hope she uses it for publicity.
I hope she wins. Those parents have kohongas of titanium to do what they’re doing in spite of their immense pain. 🥰✊️
She’ll soon discover that being the Mayor is not actually that powerful or useful of a position to effect change from. It’s a very limited position.
It’s more powerful than not being mayor.
It seems like the only hope of any true change is to get people that have been deeply impacted by these events into office. Good luck to her.
Good luck!
