Video shows hesitant US police response to Uvalde, Texas school shooting


In this photo from surveillance video, authorities stage in a hallway as they respond to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. Texas’s public safety chief has described the police response to the May 24 attack as an ‘abject failure’ and said officers wasted vital time looking for a classroom key that was ‘never needed’. — Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District/Austin American-Statesman via AP

WASHINGTON: A video of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, published July 12 showed police waiting for more than an hour before breaching a classroom where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.

Steve McCraw, Texas’s public safety chief, has described the police response to the May 24 attack as an “abject failure” and said officers wasted vital time looking for a classroom key that was “never needed”.

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