Newly released footage shows heavily armed police officers milling in hallways and waiting more than an hour before going inside and stopping the massacre.
Heavily armed police officers are shown waiting for more than an hour before going inside Robb Elementary SchoolThe 80-minute recording until now had not surfaced publicly
Hours after the video was published, some residents at a Uvalde City Council meeting said they had not been able to bring themselves to watch it.A parent of a Uvalde High School student protests outside of a city council meeting. "This has been the most unprofessional investigation or handling of it that I've ever seen in my life," Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Officials said the 77 minutes of footage they are preparing to release this weekend does not contain images of children in the classroom.Dustin Burrows, a Republican who is leading the investigation, said after the video was posted by the Statesman that "watching the entire segment of law enforcement's response, or lack thereof, is also important."