Damning evidence has been revealed over the response by Texas police to the Uvalde school shooting. 9News
police had enough armed officers on the scene of the Uvalde school mass shooting to stop the gunman after he entered the building, a hearing has heard.
"I don't care if you have on flip-flops and Bermuda shorts, you go in," Colonel Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said in blistering testimony at a state Senate hearing on Tuesday . Delays in the law enforcement response at Robb Elementary School have become the focus of federal, state and local investigations.Using a diagram of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, the Texas Department of Public Safety Director, Steve McCraw, testifies at a state Senate hearing.
Arredondo has said he didn't consider himself the person in charge and assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response.
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