Texas DPS Director: ‘Uvalde Police Chief Put Lives Of Officers Before Children’

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Jun 22, 2022
Using photos of doors from Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw testifies at a Texas Senate hearing at the state capitol, Tuesday, June 21, 2022, in Austin, Texas. Two teachers and 19 students were killed in last month’s mass shooting in Uvalde. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Did you know that American police have zero legal obligation to protect you? It seems that some of the Uvalde police are quite aware of this judicial reality, with new reports revealing that the shooting lasted over an hour despite officers entering the building a mere 3 minutes behind the shooter. Texas Department of Public Safety director Col. Steve McCraw was furious about the matter, arguing that the deadly rampage could have been ended in as little as 3 minutes.

“I don’t care if you have on flip-flops and Bermuda shorts, you go in,” McCraw passionately declared during a testimony at a state Senate hearing.

The DPS director argued there was no indication that Uvalde officers even tried to open a classroom door during the standoff, saying the police instead elected to stand around and wait for a key.

“I have great reasons to believe it was never secured,” McCraw said of the door. “How about trying the door and seeing if it’s locked?”

Anchorage Daily News reported that such extreme delays in the law enforcement response at Robb Elementary School have become the focus of federal, state, and local investigations.

McCraw tore into Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo, saying: “The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.”

Arredondo made “terrible decisions,” McCraw claimed.

The Uvalde school district police chief has reportedly tried to absolve himself of guilt for the incident, claiming that he was not in charge of the incident and that somebody else was supposed to handle the law enforcement response.

Actions by the city of Uvalde following the tragic incident have stirred quite the controversy; a hired private law firm has recently argued that the government has no obligation to release records from the incident including body cam footage from officers, photos, 911 calls, emails, text messages, criminal records, and additional materials.

This was substantiated by a letter obtained by Vice in which lawyers argued that footage and other materials from the pending investigation should be withheld from the public as it could contain “highly embarrassing information.”

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