Opinion: Uvalde locals are pointing fingers at the state, and state officials are laying the blame on locals.
after a teenage gunman slaughtered 19 schoolchildren and two teachers probably knew within days the truth behind the greatest law enforcement failure in Texas in memory.Gov. Greg Abbott used the next-day press conference to laud officers who, he said, showed “amazing courage by running toward gunfire.” Since then, of course, Abbott has said he was misled, although it has never been made clear who was churning out the false narrative in the aftermath.
The public would have to wait nearly two months for the first official evidence of the law enforcement debacle: Areleased July 17 disclosed that 376 law enforcement officers from multiple state and local agencies descended on Robb Elementary School on May 24, with some officers arriving within three minutes of the first shorts fired, only to wait for 73 minutes or more before a U.S. Border patrolman, among others, finally confronted the shooter barricaded in a classroom and killed him.
or Rangers to take charge over a small town police force and the on-site chief of the school district police force in order to immediately confront the shooter.Sign up to receive The Daily Reach every morning.Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.
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