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According to the report, police officers missed the opportunity to shoot Uvalde shooters while waiting for permission.

Texas DPS pans "abject failure" in Uvalde

A rifle-armed police officer saw a shooter walking towards the campus in theUvalde Elementary School massacre, but the director allowed him to shoot. There was criticism that he did not fire while he was waiting. A tactical response to the May massacre was announced Wednesday.

Some of the 21 victims of Rob Elementary School, including 19 children, said on May 24, while police waited more than an hour before breaking the fourth grade classroom. It may have been saved. " , A review of active shooter status was found by the Texas State University Training Center. The

report is stillwhich of the opportunities police may have saved in the most deadly school shootings in the United States since. Another abominable assessment of how you didn't act. He was slaughtered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

"A rational police officer would have considered this an active situation and devised a plan to deal with the suspect." A report published by the University's Advanced Law Enforcement Agency's Rapid Response Training Program.

The author of the 26-page report stated that the findings were based on videos taken from the school, police body cameras, testimony from police on-site, and statements from investigators. rice field. Some of their findings include:

  • Police officers waiting in the hallway during the shooting do not seem to have tested whether the classroom doors are locked. The head of the Texas state police agency also accused field police of not checking the door.
  • The officer had "weapons (including rifles), bulletproof vests (which may or may not have been evaluated to stop rifle bullets), training, and backup. Classroom victims. Did not have these things. "
  • When the policeman finally entered the classroom at 12:50 pm. — More than an hour after the shooting began — they were less equipped to confront the shooters than they were at that time.
  • "Effective case command" does not appear to have been established among multiple law enforcement agencies that responded to the shooting.

The report said last month that Colonel Stephen McLaugh, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told the State Senate that the police response was a "serious failure." It's a continuation.He puts Pete Aledondo on a special responsibility, as the commander of the scene, the police chief of the Yuvarde school, makes a "terrible decision" and the policeman previously confronts the shooter. He said he stopped.

Aledondo tried to defend his actions and told the Texas Tribune that he did not consider himself the commander in charge of the operation and that someone else controlled the law enforcement response. Said. He didn't have police and college radio, but said he used his cell phone to request tactical equipment, snipers and classroom keys.

According to his report released Wednesday, Arredondo and another Uvalde police officer spend 13 minutes in the school corridor during the shooting and enter the classroom window to decide whether to use snipers. Discussed how.

"They also discussed who has the key, testing the key, the door could be locked, and whether the child and teacher were dead or dead," the report said. Read.

Macrou stopped the shooter three minutes after he entered the building because police had enough police and firepower at the scene of the school slaughter in Yuvarde, and they said he If they said they would have found the door to the trapped classroom and bothered to check it, they unlocked it.

Arredondo's lawyer and Uvalde city police spokesman did not immediately respond to the request for comment. Arredondo resigns from his job in the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, andresigns from his position as city council memberlast week. Did.

Public leaders, including Texas Governor Greg Abbott, initially praised the police response in Uvalde. According to Mr. Abbott, police officers responded swiftly and ran into a shootout with "amazing courage" to take the murderer out, thereby saving their lives. He later said he was misunderstood.

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