Texas Dept. Of Public Safety Director says Uvalde police response was an 'abject failure'

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
― John Wayne

Law enforcement authorities were on the scene of the Uvalde, Texas school massacre three minutes after the gunman entered the building and they could have stopped him, the Texas public safety director testified on Tuesday. He called the police response an "abject failure."

Cops with rifles stood and waited in the Robb Elementary School hallway for nearly an hour while the killer carried out his attack on May 24, which left 19 children and two teachers dead.

Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, testified at a state Senate hearing on the police cowardly handling of the tragedy. They should have gone in and stopped the bastard, but they didn't.

Delays in the law enforcement response have been the focus of federal, state and local investigations of the mass shooting.

McCraw told the Senate committee that Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, decided to put the lives of officers ahead of the lives of children. 

And that is exactly what happened. 

It is also highly probable that nobody actually checked the classroom door, because it only locks from the outside and there was no way the shooter could have locked it. Besides that tidbit of information, the cops had a battering ram and could have breached the door--but they didn't even need to do that. 

THE DOOR WAS UNLOCKED!

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I feel sorry for the cops all across the country who would have gone into the danger and saved those kids. I suspect some of the Uvalde cops might have done the same had Arrendondo ordered them to go. But he didn't and kids and teachers are dead.

No police were injured in the making of this massacre.

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