thing is, once the police did their investigation and she seemed calm, didn't voice any anger, gave a story that was reasonable, it is not fair to expect them, while they are probably 20 miles down the road, to take a vague phonecall about her being upset, turn around and repeat the interrogation.
I don't know if she was calm. I don't know all the details of her police interaction. I just had a little issue with what the officer said. Cops shouldn't need someone to explain in detail that someone is about going to commit murder. Like I said, it's their job to connect dots. I don't think it's 100% accurate to characterize the warning as a vague phone call that she was upset. The police were told she was specifically upset at youtube and now she is in the area of youtube headquarters. Did they not ask themselves why?
I'm not trying to beat up on the police. They have a difficult, dangerous and often thankless job. I'm not saying that they are to blame. I'm also not saying they should start aggressively locking up people every time they are called, but the fact is with several of these mass shooters the authorities have been warned in advance. A lot of people want to blame the gun, or the second amendment, or the NRA, or all gun owners. This is the rhetoric that has gone mainstream and it's absurd. I don't think there is anything wrong with putting some focus on the actions of the people that were actually in contact with the killer and knew something was wrong...like her family and the police. Makes a lot more sense that blaming Dana Loesch, or me.
