Texas Official Says Police Could Have Stopped Uvalde Shooting in 3 Minutes
Written by SOURCE on June 21, 2022
A Texas law enforcement official has criticized the police response to the Uvalde school shooting, which he said they could have stopped within three minutes.
As NPR reports, Texas Department of Public Safety director Steve McCraw described the law enforcement response to the massacre as an “abject failure.” He suggested the police, who took approximately an hour and 14 minutes to shoot and kill the perpetrator, should have breached the door of the classroom the shooter was in long before they actually did.
“The officers had weapons, the children had none. The officers had body armor, the children had none. The officers had training, the subject had none,” said McCraw, who described it as “antithetical” to what safety officials have learned about active shooter situations across the country in the past 23 years since Columbine.
This story is being updated.
