Ted Cruz consoling a police officer who didn't intervene in the Uvalde shooting

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image showing Ted Cruz consoling a police officer who didn't intervene in the Uvalde shooting

jmsturm on January 10th, 2023 at 17:42 UTC »

"Why can't we always be in Cancun?"

IOnlySayMeanThings on January 10th, 2023 at 18:16 UTC »

The hell? "Lay your head upon my shoulder, stranger, so that I may comfort you before the warmth of the camera."

Spartan2470 on January 10th, 2023 at 19:09 UTC »

Here is a higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Per there:

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, right, and Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco pray during a prayer vigil in Uvalde, Texas, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. The vigil was held to honor the victims killed in Tuesday's shooting at Robb Elementary School. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

According to here:

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN

Updated 9:31 PM EST, Wed December 7, 2022

Uvalde, Texas CNN — Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco rushed toward Robb Elementary School when calls came in that a man was firing his gun after crashing his pickup truck on May 24.

He was one of the 376 officers who went to help children and teachers. But, unlike the vast majority, he had the rank to easily take charge, he had vital information about the shooter and a call about victims in a classroom, and others looked to him as a commander on the scene with up-to-date information.

But despite more than 30 years of law enforcement experience for the city and county, despite knowing not only his own staff but many in the command structures in the multiple agencies that arrived at Robb, Nolasco chose to stay at a different crime scene, already under control, as a far greater disaster initially unfolded. He did not take charge when he did arrive and did not ensure that cries for help from girls trapped with injured classmates and teachers were acted on.

In the days after the massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers, as demands rose for answers to why it took 77 minutes to stop the gunman once he got into the school, Nolasco was comforted by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and US Sen. Ted Cruz, his political allies.

An elected leader answering only to voters, he has not been subject to the same scrutiny as the school police chief – now fired; the acting city police chief – now retired before he could be fired; and members of the Texas Rangers and the Texas Department of Public Safety, who have all faced official scrutiny, leading to suspensions and at least one termination.

CNN has now detailed Nolasco’s actions in our investigation into the leaderless morass and lethal inaction at Uvalde. Nolasco rejected requests for interviews for months. CNN finally caught up with him in November and while he refused to respond to most questions, he did answer when asked if he thought his response was adequate: “Yeah,” he said. “I do.”

The article is long and has a lot of information after this too.