Murder in Uvalde. The police response, according to a high-ranking official, was “an absolute failure.”

The response of the police to the intrusion of a gunman in the school of Uvalde, where he killed 19 children and two teachers on May 24, was “absolute failure“Agents, in particular, waited for a key that did not exist.”not necessaryOn Tuesday, June 21, a Texas public safety official complained.

«We know one thing. There is compelling evidence that law enforcement response to the attack on Robbie Elementary School was a complete failure և contradicts everything we have learned in the last two decades since the Columbine massacre.In 1999, at Texas High School, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Stephen McCrow, told the State Senate Inquiry Committee:

“Agents’ lives before children’s lives”

It took police more than an hour to enter the classroom համար The killing of an 18-year-old gunman has been heavily criticized since the killings և Stephen McCrow returned home during this televised hearing. «Three minutes after entering the person’s western building, there were enough armed officers wearing body armor to isolate him, distract him, and make him incapacitated.“, He developed.

«The only thing that stopped the group of dedicated agents from entering the 111 և 112 rooms was the scene commander, who decided to put the agents’ lives above the children’s lives.he continued, targeting one of the police chiefs on the spot, Pete Arendondo. «The officers had a gun, the children did not. The officers wore armor, the children did not. The agents were trained, not the shooter“, He still insisted.

Pete Arendon assured that the locked classroom door delayed the intervention, an explanation that cast doubt on Stephen McCrow. «He was waiting for a key he never needed“In the days following the murder, this official had already reported mea culpa, believing that the agents should have intervened more quickly.