Uvalde Police Response Was Criminal: Report

A recent report has provided proof positive that the Uvalde Police response to the May 24th Robb Elementary School shooting was so horrifically botched, that it should be considered criminal.

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The new report was written by an investigative committee from the Texas House of Representatives and released to family members on Sunday. The report is in conjunction with dramatic video footage showing first responders and their unfathomable inaction in the shooting massacre of young children.  

The nearly 80-minute hallway surveillance video was published by the Austin American-Statesman this week and depicted a hesitant and haphazard tactical response by the Uvalde Police and other first responders on the scene. In fact, their reaction was so bungled that officials are openly calling the police “cowardly” and “a failure”

As the shooter unleashed a spray of bullets inside the Robb Elementary School, children began frantically calling 911 over and over again while screaming for help. The expectation was that officers would arrive and follow their training to the letter in order to immediately save lives. Instead, the video showed befuddled Uvalde Police Officers and other responders wandering around aimlessly, leaderless and afraid to act (in order to protect their own safety), lacking adequate communication, behaving like deers in headlights, and doing absolutely nothing to prevent young children from being shot dead.  

Their inaction lasted for 77 minutes — a criminal misstep that left the shooter ample time to complete his murderous mission.

“In this crisis, no responder seized the initiative to establish an incident command post,” the committee wrote in their report. “Despite an obvious atmosphere of chaos, the ranking officers of other responding agencies did not approach the Uvalde CISD chief of police or anyone else perceived to be in command to point out the lack of and need for a command post, or to offer that specific assistance.

“At Robb Elementary, law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training, and they failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety,” the report continued.

The committee added that no one was able to stop the gunman from carrying out the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, in part because of “systemic failures and egregious poor decision making” by nearly everyone involved who was in a position of power.

“I watched the entire video. I heard the crack of over 100 rounds fired by the shooter. I watched through the perspective of a 25-year law enforcement veteran and as the former head of internal shooting inquiries for the FBI. I watched as a parent and grandparent. What I saw didn’t answer all of my questions, but it did prompt a new one: Was the Uvalde shooter the only criminal in the school that day? Because what I saw in that school video, in my professional opinion, may be a crime — by the police.”

– Frank Figliuzzi, MSNBC

In all, the gunman fired approximately 142 rounds inside the building, and, according to the report, it’s “almost certain” that 100 shots came before a single officer entered the building.  

“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 shooting victim Layla Salazer, said Sunday.

Interestingly, Salazer may get his wish since this new report will likely lead to firings and criminal charges against Uvalde police officers and the others involved.

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A new report exposes Uvalde police as criminals.