This is 24-year old Matthew James Ruth. Yesterday, he shot and killed 3 cops with an AR-style rifle. He's yet ANOTHER young, white male murderer in America who Republicans will ignore because it doesn't fit their narrative. And it gets worse...
He stalked a woman. He set her truck on fire. He killed her dog. Then he murdered three detectives.
This is the story of a young, white male from Hanover, Pennsylvania whose violent spiral was ignored until it exploded into tragedy. Neighbors and cameras had seen him creeping outside his ex-girlfriend’s home with a rifle. Her truck was set on fire. He was accused of stalking, trespassing, loitering. There were warning signs everywhere. And yet, somehow, the system didn’t stop him.
On September 17, when police went to serve a warrant, Ruth was waiting. He opened fire with an AR-style rifle equipped with a suppressor. In seconds, three detectives were dead. Two more officers wounded. When authorities finally made it into the house, they found his ex-girlfriend’s dog shot dead in the basement.
Here’s the bitter truth: if this story didn’t involve murdered police officers, you’d probably never hear about it. Because for the Republican Party, for the gun lobby, and for too many in power, deaths only matter when ....
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The Supreme Court has indeed ruled that, under the U.S. Constitution, police do not have a specific constitutional duty to protect an individual from harm, even when a court-ordered protective order has been violated. This principle was established in the case of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005), which held that a woman could not sue her local police department for failing to respond to her pleas for help after her estranged husband kidnapped their children, leading to their deaths.
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