Texas police are investigating the 'egregiously poor decision making' that saw nearly 400 law enforcement officials standing by at Robb Elementary School as 19 children and two teachers were killed.
Uvalde officials have released camera footage showing the chaotic and slow responserevealed major failures by all levels of law enforcement.This is the first time Texas Department of Public Safety has said it will examine the actions of its own officers in the two months since the deadliest school shooting in Texas history.
The findings of the report were the first to criticise both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities in the South Texas city for the bewildering inaction by heavily armed officers as a gunman fired inside two adjoining fourth-grade classrooms. The findings had at least one immediate effect: Lieutenant Mariano Pargas, a Uvalde Police Department officer who was the city's acting police chief during the massacre, was placed on administrative leave.
Hours after the report was released, Uvalde officials separately made public for the first time hours of body camera footage from the city's police officers who responded to the attack.It included video of several officers reacting to word from a dispatcher, roughly 30 minutes after the shooting began, that a child in the room had called 911.
Anger flashed in Uvalde even over how the report was rolled out: Tina Quintanilla-Taylor, whose daughter survived the shooting, shouted at the three-member Texas House committee as they left a news conference after the findings were released.
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