Report on Uvalde shooting 'Systemic Failures' #SystemicFailures #ActiveShooters #Police #uvalde

Report on Uvalde shooting 'Systemic Failures" #SystemicFailures #ActiveShooters #Police #uvalde
HOUSTON — The first comprehensive assessment of the law enforcement response to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, found that blame for the failure to swiftly confront the gunman rested not only with the school police chief, but also with the scores of state and federal officers who gathered at the deadly scene but did not act.

The 77-page report, released Sunday by a special Texas House committee, represented a broad indictment of police inaction at Robb Elementary School, citing “systemic failures” that left the school inadequately secured and the police officers who responded mired in confusion and bad information.

Nearly 400 officers responded to the school that day. Yet the decision to finally confront the gunman was made by a small group of officers, including specially trained Border Patrol agents and a deputy sheriff from a neighboring county, the report found, concluding that others at the scene could have taken charge and done so far earlier.

The findings represented the most complete outside account of what took place during the 77 minutes between when the gunman began firing inside the classrooms and when the police finally stormed in and ended the May 24 massacre that left 19 students and two teachers dead.

But the report found that a flawless police response would not have saved most of the victims, who suffered devastating injuries when they were shot with a high-powered AR-15-style rifle by a gunman who had been waiting for his 18th birthday to purchase the weapon legally.

Some died on the way to the hospital, the report noted, adding in a final footnote that “it is plausible that some victims could have survived if they had not had to wait” for rescue.

“If there’s only one thing that I can tell you is, there were multiple systemic failures,” State Representative Dustin Burrows, who spearheaded the investigation, said at a news conference on Sunday. “Several officers in the hallway or in that building knew or should have known there was dying in that classroom, and they should have done more, acted with urgency.”

Mr. Burrows added that it would be up to the individual agencies to hold their officers accountable. The goal of the committee, he said, was to provide relatives of the victims and the public with information.

[pattil]

Replay, Hi! Bill & Phil! Thank you so much for talking about this, may we learn & do better next time, bc unfortunately there will be a next time. God be with us! Prayers for all involved & the dear families to whom lost their precious children. Hopefully Justice will prevail. 😔🤗🙏👋🥰❤️

[jeneendove]

Watching that report made me cry. Watching the police officer's waiting and watching and listening to these babies being shot.😭🙏🙏🙏🙏

[jeneendove]

Hello Bill and Phil⚖️⚖️🇺🇲💙🖤👋👋❤️❤️love you both for always being there. Hello 👋 from kalama Washington USA!
I love how you say it how it is. You both have a great ❤️ heart.

[clare]

I would love say lessons will be learnt and change made so surely that’s not possible for so many errors to happen again, but I’m so sad to say I think it will happen again and probably before the end of the year

[critterwatcher]

I understand the issue about radio frequencies and lack of coordination. BUT I've heard multiple reports say that they've edited out the children's screams from this video. Screaming = life. If the officers in that hallway heard screaming, they didn't need radios to make a decision about going in now. It seems intuitively obvious to any thinking adult that if someone is gravely injured and bleeding, that the more blood loss the more critical it becomes, and the more likely is death may result. Time is critical.

[TheTkpham]

I didn't know they actually took away the gun of the LEO whose wife was the teacher in that classroom and stopped him from going in. I can't imagine the anguish he must have went through.

[jonnyquest]

"Systemic failures"' No shite Sherlock.
Apparently not getting police to actually take
courses on how to handle things is part of it. The
other is not firing those cops.

Now what are they going to do about it' Usually
"systemic failures" means "no further action will
betaken."

[masunshine]

Love you guys, I just can't listen to this any more because it just upsets me so bad. This is about the parents and the people who did not get him banned from owning guns, he should have never been allowed to own guns with all his mental issues!! The school is guilty for not fixing that door, the police are guilty for not going in right away.

[kim]

bill, im shocked with your comments that 'does the punishment warrant being fired?' you say, yeah they didnt do there job, you said that. but what punishment does that warrant then? what do you think the cops deserve? Not more training, because they had training 3 months before shooting.

[Greentunic]

I understand you saying the officers shouldn't be criminally charged but to say they shouldn't lose their jobs? Are you kidding? With any job if you blanetly disregard company policy and procedure, that's always grounds to be fired!

[emma_t_s]

Many 🚩 with this guy. No one saw it? No one cared?

[masunshine]

Can you two being retired police why their are not shields that can stop those bullets and why every officer does not have one in their car and protective full helmet s in their cars??? They are expensive is not a good enough answer. Our country/government should be paying for these items for every policeman or woman. The they are too expensive means our kids are not worth the money.