Shooter could have been stopped in THREE MINUTES: Top Texas law enforcement official calls Uvalde massacre ‘abject failure’ on part of cops
06/28/2022 // JD Heyes // Views

Police officers who initially responded to the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, last month are being called out as cowards for their "abject failure" to more rapidly engage the 18-year-old shooter who massacred 19 fourth-grade children and two adults.

One recent report, for instance, said that Uvalde Police and other first-in law enforcement officers waited more than 75 minutes before engaging the shooter at Robb Elementary School.

Now, the top Texas law enforcement officer is adding fuel to the fire with a claim that officers could have actually engaged with, and stopped, the 18-year-old gunman within “minutes.”

The fact that they did not was an “abject failure” on their part, according to the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

“There’s compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary was an abject failure and antithetical to everything we’ve learned over the last two decades since the Columbine massacre,” said Col. Steve McCraw, the department’s director.

“Three minutes after the subject entered the West building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject,” McCraw continued.

“The only thing stopping the hallway of dedicated officers from entering rooms 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” he continued.

“One error; 14 minutes and eight seconds,” the director said of the young students desperately waiting in two classrooms for someone to come save them from the lunatic who was murdering them.

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McCraw went on to testify that officers were, in part, waiting for a “key that was not needed.”

“I have great reasons to believe it was never secured,” he testified. “How about trying the door and seeing if it’s locked?”

“Obviously, not enough training was done in this situation, plain and simple. Because terrible decisions were made by the on-site commander,” McCraw said during testimony before a state Senate committee on Tuesday, blasting the officer in charge.

Parents and others have also blasted the officers who were first on the scene for refusing to engage the shooter much more quickly. McCraw’s testimony appears to justify their anger and in no uncertain terms.

One mother said she was briefly handcuffed for trying to get past officers to get into the school to get her two sons. After they released her, she did just that.

“The police were doing nothing,” mother Angeli Rose Gomez accused, according to The Wall Street Journal. “They were just standing outside the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anywhere.”

Gomez said she "was one of the numerous parents waiting outside the school who began encouraging — first politely, and then with more urgency — police and other law enforcement to enter the school sooner,” the Journal report outlined.

“After a few minutes, she said, U.S. Marshals put her in handcuffs, telling her she was being arrested for intervening in an active investigation,” the paper added.

Desperate to reach her children, the mother said she was able to convince local Uvalde officers whom she knew to get the marshals to un-cuff her.

“Once freed from her cuffs, Ms. Gomez made her distance from the crowd, jumped the school fence, and ran inside to grab her two children,” the report detailed. “She sprinted out of the school with them.”

Earlier this week, the San Antonio Express reported that security footage at the Robb Elementary School shows that cops waited some 77 minutes before they even tried to open two doors into the classrooms where the children and adults were being murdered.

The performance of these officers who are sworn to protect and serve is a disgrace.

Sources include:

CitizenFreePress.com

ExpressNews.com



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