A damning report and hours of body camera footage further laid bare the chaotic response to a mass shooting at a Uvalde school, where hundreds of officers massed but then waited to confront the gunman even after a child trapped with the shooter called 911.
Texas House investigative committee chairman Rep. Dustin Burrows holds a copy of its full report on the shootings at Robb Elementary School as the committee meets, Sunday, July 17, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas.
Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to the school, but “egregiously poor decision making” resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman was finally confronted and killed, according to thereport The committee didn’t “receive medical evidence” to show that police storming the classrooms sooner would have saved lives, but it concluded that “it is plausible that some victims could have survived if they had not had to wait 73 additional minutes for rescue.”
Other body camera video from Uvalde Staff Sgt. Eduardo Canales, the head of the city’s SWAT team, showed the officer approaching the classrooms when gunfire rang out at 11:37 a.m. “I’m pissed. They need to come back and give us their undivided attention,” she said later. “These leaders are not leaders,” she said.
The report noted that many of the hundreds of law enforcement responders who rushed to the school were better trained and equipped than the school district police — which the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the state police force, previously faulted for not going into the room sooner.Investigators said it was not their job to determine whether officers should be held accountable, saying that decisions rested with each law enforcement agency.
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