Justice Department Finds ‘Significant Failure’ in Uvalde Police Response
Justice Department Finds ‘Significant Failure’ in Uvalde Police Response
In a report, the department blames “cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training” in the Texas school shooting that left 21 people dead.
So? It’s not like there are going to be any legal or political repercussions for a foreseeable future
Oh surely SOMEONE deserves some paid leave for this, right?
In other news, the population of Uvalde re-elected all the same people responsible for the problem, and there's a lack of optimism among anyone at all regarding the possibility of consequences of any kind for these useless drains on the local budget.
the gravest error was the reluctance of officials to confront the killer during the first few minutes of the attack.
The cops were f**king COWARDS because for once they would actually have to put their lives on the line instead of terrorizing others.
ACAB.
And no, I certainly DON’T expect cops to come running to my defense if a shooter put me at risk, as these cops have confirmed. Yet, I could plausibly expect them to do a “no-knock” violently armed home invasion on the flimsiest of pretences. Always the braver so long as they hold the advantage.
Never really hear about somebody the cops save in a dramatic way. Despite their best efforts, you hear about the people they kill in a dramatic way all the time, though.
Maybe they could try, I dunno, not killing anyone in a dramatic way.
It's worse than that. So much worse. They didn't even set up a triage point. So people died from just lack of care after they were rescued.
I was working very close to uvalde when this happened and before a lot of info was released everyone was saying it was an “illegal” who was running from the border patrol that went in the school and started shooting.
P.S. So many people in south Texas like to call them illegals and I hate it, it’s so damn dehumanizing.
the sound of children screaming has been removed
the sound of children screaming in terror has been removed
FTFY.
Screaming by children is frequently done in joy as well, let’s be absolutely specific here.
I was quoting a haunting editors note on the security video 😬
You can't fix a quote.
Well, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is apparently something other than 376 law enforcement officers with guns.
Nice, what now!? Surely the Justice Department will bring justice, right!?
lets all stand around with our long guns and our fingers up our asses while children get slaughtered down the hall ~ i hate this timeline
Doesn't bring back those dead children. Let's see some reform, please.
Duh?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Justice Department investigation released on Thursday found that a near-total breakdown in policing protocols hindered the response to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 21 people dead — but the gravest error was the reluctance of officials to confront the killer during the first few minutes of the attack.
The department blamed “cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training” for the delayed and passive law enforcement response that allowed an 18-year-old gunman with a semiautomatic rifle to remain inside a pair of connected fourth grade classrooms at Robb Elementary School for 77 minutes before he was confronted and killed.
The “most significant failure,” investigators concluded, was the fateful decision by local police officials to classify the incident as a barricaded standoff rather than an “active-shooter” scenario, which would have demanded instant and aggressive action regardless of the danger to those responding or the lack of appropriate weapons to confront the gunman.
The report, known as a critical incident review and initiated 20 months ago at the request of the town’s former mayor, Don McLaughlin, also found fault with local and state officials who provided incomplete and at times inaccurate information to the families of students and the news media.
That state report cited a range of factors unrelated to law enforcement that contributed to the sluggish response, including the remote location of Uvalde, a small city of 14,000, and its proximity to a border crossing with Mexico that has been a popular gateway for illegal immigration.
For more than an hour, local, state and federal officials, including agents from the U.S. Border Patrol, discussed how to deal with the situation — and made the fateful decision to classify the incident as a barricaded standoff, requiring negotiation, rather than an active-shooter scenario, which would demand an immediate and aggressive response.
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