“Critical failures” delayed the police response to the 2022 shooting in Texas that killed 19 children and two teachers, according to a damning US Department of Justice review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report found shortcomings in “leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training” led to a confused response to gunman Salvador Ramos at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on 24 May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers should have immediately broken into the classroom to confront the 18-year-old gunman – but instead they treated him like a “barricaded subject” and left him inside with 33 pupils for 77 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The resulting delay provided an opportunity for the active shooter to have additional time to reassess and re-engage his deadly actions inside the classroom,” the report added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It also contributed to a delay in medical interventions with the potential to impact survivability.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were at least 10 “stimulus events” over the course of an hour that could have driven police to take steps under active shooter protocols to “immediately stop the killing”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These events included “at least six separate instances of gunfire” and about “45 rounds in law enforcement officer presence”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 20 months since the review was announced, footage emerged of the gunman entering the school and police later waiting outside the fourth-grade (Year 5) classrooms where he opened fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the aftermath of the shooting, authorities also gave wrong information to parents about whether their children had survived or not, according to the review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kimberly Rubio, whose daughter was killed in the shooting, told reporters she “hopes the failures end today” and called for “criminal prosecutions” and to “enact civil gun laws”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It [the shooting] began the day an 18-year-old was allowed to purchase an AR-15 [rifle],” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“None of us are safe because these weapons are on the streets.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another said he hopes the report “lights a fire under the district attorney”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added: “It’s hard enough waking up every day and continuing to walk on these streets\u2026 and see a cop that was standing there while our babies were murdered and bleeding out.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Velma Lisa Duran, whose sister Irma Garcia was one of the teachers killed, said she is grateful for the review but disappointed local prosecutors are yet to bring charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“A report doesn’t matter when there are no consequences for actions that are so vile,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“What do you want us to do with another report? Bring it to court.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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