Trego's Mountain Ear

I read a CNN article the other day:

 6/28/24 CNN:

“A grand jury has indicted two former Uvalde school police officers in the botched law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead, two Texas state government sources with knowledge of the indictment told CNN Thursday.

‘Former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo and former school police officer Adrian Gonzales were named in the indictments, which represent the first criminal charges filed in the school massacre.”

I’m impressed.  Charges of child abandonment and neglect aren’t what I would have anticipated – but there is obviously a county attorney down Texas way who is willing to take whatever law he can find to put some sort of charges against a couple of cops who didn’t perform their duty.

In another story, from ThePrint, Alec Baldwin is due for his day in court:

“Washington [US], June 30 (ANI): Actor Alec Baldwin’s legal battle continues as a judge has ruled against his motion to dismiss the case stemming from the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a movie set in Santa Fe, N.M.

The decision, handed down by Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, ensures that Baldwin will face trial on July 9 for involuntary manslaughter, according to the reports obtained by Variety.

The controversy centres around Baldwin’s assertion that the FBI’s destruction of his Colt .45 revolver during testing obstructed his defence.”

I’m kind of looking forward to Baldwin’s trial – he has a long record encouraging gun control and bashing the NRA, and paying attention to the NRA gun safety rules would have kept him out of court.