Shooter incident at elementary school in Uvalde, Texas - 19 children and 2 adults dead

Optimus Prime said

The recent report on the Uvalde, Tex., school shooting persuasively recounts “systemic failures and egregious poor decision making” by law enforcement during the response.

But Uvalde raises a broader question about policing in America:

How is it possible that we have so many instances of police being overly aggressive and unnecessarily violent, yet police in Uvalde failed to act with the decisiveness and force necessary to save lives?

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It's because they're not the badass cops we see in the movies.

They act more like the classroom bullies we see in movies.

Bullies don't pick on everyone equally. They rarely target the popular kids.

They go after the kids who are already at a disadvantage because of how they look or how poor they are.

So when someone steps up and matches their toxic energy, they lose their sheet and don't know how to respond.

Civilians think they're getting John McClane, but all they get is Farkus from A Christmas Story.

No one would be surprised if a stat suggested most school bullies grew up to be cops.