We now have some accountability clarification from the court system over the disaster that hit Texas two winters ago. It kind of put me in the mind of the judgement that really all sort of shocked us after Parkland.
You know – the one where police have “no duty to protect.”
…“Neither the Constitution, nor state law, impose a general duty upon police officers or other governmental officials to protect individual persons from harm — even when they know the harm will occur,” said Darren L. Hutchinson, a professor and associate dean at the University of Florida School of Law. “Police can watch someone attack you, refuse to intervene and not violate the Constitution.”
Well, once the February 2021 storm had spent days hanging around: after the TX power grid collapsed, and the state was done totin’ up the dead bodies (there were over 250 folks who lost their lives),…
