The state senator who represents Uvalde claims the head of the Texas DPS admitted there were troopers in the school hallway with ballistic shields when children were dying. DPS says the senator is wrong.
A state senator says more than a dozen state troopers were among those who waited in a hall outside. But the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety says that's not the case.
New information has emerged about law enforcement who were perched in a hallway just feet from where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos was sinisterly shooting students and teachers.Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo has taken much criticism in the three weeks since the shooting as he was identified as the incident commander for not ordering law enforcement to move towards the shooter sooner.
That information Gutierrez says came from McCraw who, according to the San Antonio Express News, said DPS would never stand down again. The interim budget to pay for any tools that might be needed in the investigation was set at $85,000."If it's not enough, would the committee entertain a bump in this amount should they need it?" he said."But we wanted to go ahead and get this started. They have their first hearing this week," he said. "Their second hearing, they are going to Uvalde this week. And so this is something that’s near and dear to all of our hearts.
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