Comments by "MacAdvisor" (@MacAdvisor) on "Uvalde and Police \"Duty\"" video.

  1. Objection! I rise to remind my learned colleague of the duty to complete a rescue. There are many people to whom one does not owe a duty. Walking by a swimming pool, I spot a person unknown to me drowning in the pool. I don't owe them a duty of rescue. I may walk on by, as the song says. However, if I walk over to the pool and toss the person a rope that they clutch on to, I have a duty to now complete the rescue and reel them in. I can't drop the rope and retreat. The police in Uvalde undertook to rescue and protect, then stopped midway for an hour, forty minutes. Not only did they not rescue or defend, but they prevented others from doing so. I suggest, unlike the police office who took the report and then went to dinner allowing the children to be killed, the officer in that case did not undertake a defense or rescue. I don't think firefighters can drive up to a burning home, hook up their hoses, and then do nothing. An EMT cannot pull up in an ambulance, load up the injured party, and then go to lunch, they must treat and go to an emergency department with all due haste. Once undertaken, the rescue or defense must be completed as a reasonable rescuer would do under same or similar circumstances. At least, if I were the attorney in the Uvalde case, that would be my theory of the case.
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