Officer husband of slain Uvalde teacher tried to save her. His gun was taken away.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Eva Mireles’ husband, a police officer, tried to save her after she was shot at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, according to the director of the state Department of Public Safety, Col. Steven McCraw.

During a Texas Senate hearing Tuesday on the police response to the shooting, McCraw said that Mireles’ husband, Ruben Ruiz, had his gun taken away, was detained and escorted off the scene after he received a call from his wife.

“We got an officer, Officer Ruiz, whose wife had called him and said she (had) been shot and she’s dying,” McCraw said in video shared by PBS "News Hour." “What happened to him as he tried to move forward into the hallway, he was detained and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene.”

Fourth grade teacher Mireles was one of the two educators who was killed in the school shooting on May 24, when an 18-year-old killed 19 students. Lydia Martinez Delgado told The New York Times that her niece died protecting her students.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/officer-husband-of-slain-uvalde-teacher-tried-to-save-her-his-gun-was-taken-away/ar-AAYJQ3u

[Bayard]

1. Horrible!

People who actually tried to do something were stopped by people who would do nothing.

[TheRealNorth]

6. True

But I wonder if he would have acted if he didn't know someone. And the answer to that question pisses me off.

[Lancero]

2. Meanwhile, no attempts to save any of the children being massacred.

He only started to care about what was happening when it was someone he knew getting killed. Much like the rest of his worthless department, he didn't give a damn about anyone else in the building.

[inthewind21]

5. That's

quite the assumption.

[Lancero]

10. Going by reports of what Ulvade did, it's entirely in line with the departments actions that day.

Or, rather, their lack of action.

[TheRealNorth]

7. Based on the cops I have known....

They will protect their own first and foremost. "Protect and Serve" is dead.

That's how RW mobs armed with AR-15's storm State Capitols, while unarmed protestors get gassed and shot with rubber bullets.

[Raine]

9. Still if he had been able to get to his wife and save her

many of the children might have been saved too. Thanks to those who held him back no one will ever know.

[localroger]

3. This whole thing is increasingly more weird than horrible

It's not just cowardice. It really seems as if the cops in charge of the scene were deliberately doing everything in their power to maximize the kill count.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

4. They'd have to shoot me

No way am I letting them stop me and disarm me while my wife and those kids bleed out. I'd be going in, I may or may not get killed, but I'm not standing around in the hallway with a thumb up my ass.

[867-5309.]

8. So they only storm the place if it's a loved one at risk

If not he'd have cowered in the hall with the rest of them.

Fuck this guy and every one of those cowardly bastards.