Re: Nearly 400 officers were in Uvalde before the gunman was killed, a new report finds

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UVALDE, Texas — Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to
mass shooting that left 21 people dead at a Uvalde elementary
school but "systemic failures" created a chaotic scene that
lasted more than an hour before the gunman was finally
confronted and killed, according to a report from investigators
released Sunday.

The nearly 80-page report, obtained by multiple media outlets,
was the first to criticize both state and federal law
enforcement, and not just local authorities in the Texas town
for the bewildering inaction by heavily armed officers as a
gunman fired inside a fourth-grade classroom .

The report — the most complete account yet of the hesitant and
haphazard response to the May 24 massacre at at Robb Elementary
School — was written by an investigative committee from the
Texas House of Representatives and released to family members
Sunday.

According to the Texas Tribune, which reviewed the report ahead
of its scheduled release to the public later in the day, the
overwhelming majority of responders at the school were federal
and state law enforcement. That included nearly 150 U.S. Border
Patrol agents and 91 state police officials, according to the
Tribune.

"It's a joke. They're a joke. They've got no business wearing a
badge. None of them do," Vincent Salazar, grandfather of 11-year-
old Layla Salazer, said Sunday.

The report followed weeks of closed-door interviews with more
than 40 people, including witnesses and law enforcement who were
on the scene of the shooting.

Flowers that had been piled high in the city's central square
had been removed as of Sunday, leaving a few stuffed animal maps
scattered around the fountains alongside photos of some of the
children who were killed.

A nearly 80-minute hallway surveillance video published by the
Austin American-Statesman this week publicly showed for the
first time a hesitant and haphazard tactical response, which the
head of Texas' state police has condemned as a failure and some
Uvalde residents have blasted as cowardly.

Calls for police accountability have grown in Uvalde since the
shooting. So far, only one officer from the scene of the
deadliest school shooting in Texas history is known to be on
leave.

The report is the result of one of several investigations into
the shooting, including another led by the Justice Department. A
report earlier this month by tactical experts at Texas State
University alleged that a Uvalde police officer had a chance to
stop the gunman before he went inside the school armed with an
AR-15.

But in an example of the conflicting statements and disputed
accounts since the shooting, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin has
said that never happened. That report had been done at the
request of the Texas Department of Public Safety, which
McLaughlin has increasingly criticized and accused of trying to
minimize the role of its troopers during the massacre.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/17/1111928866/uvalde-school-shooting-
report