The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety has slammed the law enforcement response to last month’s mass school shooting in Uvalde as an “abject failure”. 7NEWS
One unidentified officer who arrived at 11.56am said that they needed to act.“Whoever is in charge will determine that.”Starting at around 11.33am, the gunman fired over 100 rounds in a couple of minutes, and then fired sporadically over the next hour, including at 11.40am, 11.44am, and 12.21pm.
McCraw said the person in charge is typically the “ranking official of the agency that has jurisdiction”, which in this case meant Arredondo, who was also on scene throughout the entire incident. “DPS, the Border Patrol, FBI, everybody that came in afterwards, US Marshals that came in afterwards, it is not the practice or policy to take over anything.”‘They let our kids down’
“We see that there officers with adequate munitions, adequate equipment to be able to breach that room,” he said.“Those answers need to be had. They shouldn’t be dribbling through the media in this way.
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