An official report released this Sunday revealed serious coordination errors by local, state and federal security forces in an operation deployed during the shooting at Uvalde Elementary School (Texas, USA.), in which 19 children and 2 teachers were killed.
Commission investigation Congress Texan and to whom he had access Texas Tribune newspaperconcluded that 376 agents were involved in the operation to save the school, directing “a chaotic and uncoordinated scene that lasted over an hour.”
The report found that it took so long for the authorities to enter the classroom where shooterSalvador Ramos, with a group of students due to “system failures and highly inefficient decision making”.
“The group lacked leadership and communication and lacked the urgency to finish off the shooter,” the report said, according to the newspaper.
For the first time, state and federal authorities have pointed to errors as investigations so far have pointed to the school district’s police chief, Peter Arredondoas responsible for delaying agents infiltrating the classroom.
According to the report, the school was visited by 149 border guards from USA, Well uvalde located a few kilometers from Mexico; 91 state police, 25 police from uvalde and 16 sheriffs, as well as deputies from neighboring counties, among other federal agencies.
Work without control
In an interview with the committee, several agents involved in the operation explained that they did not know who was in charge of the operation, while others stated that Arredondo was responsible.
The report assures that no agency, either federal or state, offered to lead the operation, despite being better trained than the local police, and, finally, agents patrol the border They entered the classroom and shot the shooter without asking Arredondo’s permission.
The committee also found that Robb Elementary School staff regularly left the doors of the center unlocked due to a shortage of keys for all teachers.
“If the school staff locked the doors, as required by protocol, it could slow down the progress (arrow) for a few minutes,” he said.
And he noticed that Salvador Ramos, who legally acquired the AR-15 assault rifle, from which he staged a massacre, showed on social networks that he was preparing a terrorist attack.
slaughter uvalde the May 24th incident reopened the gun ownership debate in state joineda right enshrined in the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
While Democrats are in favor of stricter background checks on gun buyers and a ban on machine guns, Republicans oppose any restrictions and blame these shootings on mental health issues.
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