The Uvalde student walkout and the Pinche Rinches with loaded rifles ready to shoot children and parents.
The Arrival of the Texas Rangers
Leading a contingent of about twenty-five (25) Texas Rangers was the infamous Captain Alfred Y. Allee, the head of Company “D” based in Carrizo Springs, Texas. A Texas Ranger since 1933, this was the same Captain Allee who had helped to crush the United Farm Workers melon strike down in the Rio Grande Valley at La Casita Farms in 1967. [12] And it was the same Captain Allee who appeared before the United States Civil Rights Commission in San Antonio in 1968 to answer questions from Commissioners about the beatings he personally administered during an incident in the Valley. [13]
Not only did Captain Allee bring his reputation to Uvalde, he also brought two Department of Public Safety Huey helicopters which were flown at low altitudes over the town. It was also from these helicopters that reconnaissance photos were taken to help law enforcement officials on the ground identify the participants in the walkout. [14] Tony Diaz, a recently returned soldier from Viet Nam, commented that that every time he heard those helicopters, he felt as though he were back in Nam.
Probably the most poignant signal the Texas Rangers delivered with their presence in Uvalde was when they stood on the roof tops of buildings with loaded rifles during school board meetings on Getty Street.
…And all of a sudden, I am a radical and an agitator? I remember we were walking into that building, the little building where the school board met and looking up the barrel of a Texas Ranger’s rifle. They were on the roof with guns pointed down at us.
Texas Rangers during the Uvalde shooting: Pinche Rinches – 2022
By reinstating Texas Ranger Christopher Ryan Kindell in early August, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steve McCraw seems to have once and for all sidestepped a public reckoning over his agency’s role in the botched law enforcement response to the deadly May 24, 2022, shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
McCraw fired Kindell more than a year ago, accusing him of failing to meet department standards in responding to the active shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers in 2022. But as long as Kindell’s appeal of his termination was ongoing—the ranger has been on paid leave pending the outcome—McCraw faced the specter of a public hearing and potential scrutiny of high-ranking DPS officials, some of whom the U.S. Department of Justice says also violated state policy on the day of the shooting.
On August 2, McCraw suddenly—and without hearing Kindell’s appeal—reversed the firing and sent the ranger back to work. In doing so, the longtime head of DPS avoided having to explain his original decision in an open meeting before the governor-appointed Public Safety Commission, which oversees the state police. Meanwhile, DPS is appealing a judge’s order requiring the state police to release records related to the shooting.
Texas Ranger – Allee – How Gabachos treat the Mixed breeds, aka Mexican-Americans
I used the term “mixed breed” when I was much younger and was dating a White girl who was in college. We were both attending, and I can never forget what her father told us: that even if we loved each other, we had to think about the half-breed children we would have.
June 2, 1967 Texas Ranger Captain A. Y. Allee and others brutally beat farmworker activists Magdaleno Dimas and Benito Rodriguez, in an incident that shows the extent of Ranger violence against Mexican American labor and CR activism.
Allee, as has been noted in other RTF #OTD tweets, had a long track record of violence, intimidation, and racism directed especially at the Mexican American community. He was quick to anger and seemed to enjoy clubbing people with his gun. https://twitter.com/Refusing2Forget/status/1642143914785230849?s=20
A few weeks later, the Rangers sought to arrest Dimas for allegedly brandishing a gun in a threatening manner, and found him by “tailing” Chandler and Moreno, also union members. Chandler was arrested with no explanation, as was Moreno, who was also assaulted by Captain Allee at the time. These two men were later charged with assisting Dimas to evade arrest, although, by Allee’s own testimony, they were never told Dimas was sought by the Rangers. Indeed, because the officers had no arrest warrant or formal complaint against Dimas, they could not then arrest him, so they put in a call to a justice of the peace who arrived on the scene and filled out a warrant on forms he carried with him. The Rangers then broke into a house and arrested Dimas and Rodriguez, another union member, in a violent and brutal fashion. Dimas was hospitalized four days with a brain concussion, and X-rays revealed that he had been struck so hard on the back that his spine was curved out of shape. Rodriguez had cuts and bruises on his ear, elbow, upper arm, back, and jaw; one of his fingers was broken, and the nail torn off. Id. at 616-617. Source
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