Sheriff Ruben Nolasco won re-election despite pressure from victims’ families to step down and a Justice Department report finding ‘cascading’ failures among the law enforcement response that day
For nearly two years, a Texas county sheriff has refused to step down after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in 2022.
Instead, on Super Tuesday, Uvalde County sheriff Ruben Nolasco faced voters for the first time in the wake of the massacre.
And he won re-election with roughly 39 per cent of votes against three Republican challengers, according to preliminary results.
The sheriff has repeatedly rebuffed calls to resign or withdraw his candidacy for re-election despite overwhelming public pressure from victims’ families, demands that he face criminal charges, and a federal investigation that detailed a minute-by-minute timeline exposing “cascading” failures in the law enforcement response that day.
I’m not exasperate with the user, I am exasperated with red states.
I am tired of being part of an oppressed minority yet eveyrone seems to expect that I am the one who has to adjust, I am the one who has to be extra fair to others after a lifetime of the same poeple you would have me give extra room being out to literally have me executed. I am tired of watching states restrict my rights and then be told that I have to actually feel sorry for all the people. It’s a weird thing, honestly, that I who don’t live there should be expected to care for people who live there more than other people who live there. It’s disingenuous. It’s unfair. I’m done with it.