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Did anyone else catch the Uvalde conference today?
This was the televised meeting of the state's top safety officer explaining that several officers (7?)--fully and heavily armed--stood outside of an UNLOCKED DOOR for one hour, fourteen minutes and eight seconds while innocent teachers and children were being massacred.
Good God, what has happened to this country!? Cowards. And the police Chief Arredondo ordered it all.
From the NYT:
In his comments before a special State Senate committee in Austin, Steven McCraw, the director of the Department of Public Safety, provided the most complete public account yet of his agency’s month-old investigation and a forceful argument that officers at the scene could have — and should have — confronted the gunman without delay after arriving. Just minutes after a gunman began shooting children on May 24, he said, the officers at the scene had enough firepower and protective equipment to storm into the classrooms.
“The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander,” Mr. McCraw said.
But the commander “decided to put the lives of officers ahead of the lives of children,” he said, delaying the confrontation with the gunman for more than an hour while he “waited for a key that was never needed.”
This was the televised meeting of the state's top safety officer explaining that several officers (7?)--fully and heavily armed--stood outside of an UNLOCKED DOOR for one hour, fourteen minutes and eight seconds while innocent teachers and children were being massacred.
Good God, what has happened to this country!? Cowards. And the police Chief Arredondo ordered it all.
From the NYT:
In his comments before a special State Senate committee in Austin, Steven McCraw, the director of the Department of Public Safety, provided the most complete public account yet of his agency’s month-old investigation and a forceful argument that officers at the scene could have — and should have — confronted the gunman without delay after arriving. Just minutes after a gunman began shooting children on May 24, he said, the officers at the scene had enough firepower and protective equipment to storm into the classrooms.
“The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander,” Mr. McCraw said.
But the commander “decided to put the lives of officers ahead of the lives of children,” he said, delaying the confrontation with the gunman for more than an hour while he “waited for a key that was never needed.”
