More than a dozen DPS troopers waited in hallway during Uvalde massacre

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Marc Duvoisin
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Another day, another rattling disclosure about law enforcement response to Uvalde massacre. As many as 13 state troopers were in the hallway at Robb Elementary, yet DPS did not override school police chief's decision to wait ... and wait.

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More than a dozen DPS troopers waited in hallway during Uvalde massacre
State Sen. Roland Gutierrez wants more answers on how Texas Department of Public Safety...
4:24 PM · Jun 13, 2022

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Uvalde-school-shooting-police-response-17239250.php

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As many as 13 troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety waited in a hallway at one point during a gunman’s rampage that killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde last month, state Sen. Roland Gutierrez said.

Gutierrez, a San Antonio Democrat whose district encompasses Uvalde, said DPS Director Steven McCraw revealed the number of responding state troopers to him in a recent exchange.

“He told me there was enough people and equipment to breach the door,” Gutierrez said, even as officers continued to wait for more than an hour and some of the children inside the two locked classrooms called 911 for help.

In previous statements, McCraw has said that as many as 19 officers from various law enforcement agencies waited outside the classrooms. DPS has not publicly clarified the extent to which it was involved in the widely criticized police response to the May 24 mass shooting.

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[NCLefty]

1. Chain-of-command failure, if nothing else.

[Phoenix61]

2. I'm so confused. Every janitor at the school has a key to

every room. There are keys in the school office. How is it they couldn’t figure out how to open the damn door?

[Novara]

3. It just keeps getting worse.

[Iggo]

4. Nope. Still the same. A bunch of men armed to the teeth standing around for an hour...

…while dying children are pleading for help.

Just different uniforms.