The Texas Department of Public Safety tells a crowd that officers should've entered the Robb Elementary classroom sooner during a shooting massacre.
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The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety said Friday law enforcement officers should have entered the classroom sooner in Uvalde, Texas, during a massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead earlier this week.
The commander at the scene of the shooting at Robb Elementary School decided the incident had transitioned into a "barricaded suspect" situation, not an "active shooter" — a decision that Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said was wrong while speaking during a news conference.
"From the benefit of hindsight, where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. Period. There's no excuse for that," McCraw said.
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Thank you
Now it’s 1 hour 20 mins they say the cops did nothing ! DISGUSTING ✅✅✅
Mexican cops wow
@prayed up It doesn’t matter. But factually Mexican and whyte 💡
@Facts over Fear hey how are you
@Amanda Jaun Just taking in the crazy day and now mowing the lawn lol You?
The police should be held accountable how could you stand there and do nothing I don’t and can’t comprehend this
So the good guys with guns stood their ground while the psychopath was killing kids.
They’re a bunch of jokes.
First of all why wasn’t police at the school already there’s always some at highschool’s
If I were there i would have.
Charge them like the coo in Florida who didn’t go in
Gee imagine that 🙄 they allowed those babies to be MURDERED!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Ask the kids who died officer when you should have entered.
And ask your politicians why they allow people to have assault weapons too.
@Chess Dad hey how are you
The public is PISSED about this incident, ban these assault weapons, absolutely no need for the public to own these types of weapons, even the police were afraid to enter and engage the gunman.
For the look of the Uvalde police officers, they couldn’t run 25 yards without passing out ,,,, only thing on their minds was where’s my direct deposit and the nearest taco truck ,,, ready for them tripa and langua tacos …. W/a cup of menudo …. Sad ……
Yeah…when an active shooter has an AR-15 automatic weapon, things change so why are these weapons sold to the public?
They want the respect but don’t have the balls.
Fire them fire them. God damn it all, fire these jokes.
Don’t worry. Sometime in the future, it may be hours later, a good guy with a gun will show up.
He should resign as well as the officers involved
There are some jobs where u cant make the wrong choice