In the aftermath of the Uvalde massacre, police officers can't get their story straight. Why? [View all]

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The Post reviewed a viral video taken outside the school. You can hear shots fired and moms wailing. Officers say they’re “taking care of it.” Parents, hearing the shooting, say they know the shooter is alive. The video shows one officer with his taser drawn, though not pointed at anyone. Another officer has pinned someone (a parent?) to the ground.

We still don’t know about the priorities of law enforcement officers. Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine told a local TV news reporter that some cops got their own kids out.

We do know, Vanessa, that there was some police officers that responded to get their kids out of the school because there was an active shooter situation. It’s a terrible situation right. … It’s just a terrible, terrible tragedy that took place. But again, we got to keep acknowledging those brave men and women who were there on scene great connection there on that met the suspect.

We still don’t know precisely how law enforcement behaved once Ramos entered the school. Officials first said he barricaded himself in the classroom. Then they said he barricaded him in the classroom by locking the door behind him. Then they said police “contained” Ramos inside the classroom. Then they said police breached “the barricade.” Then they said police had “trouble breaching” the door, per the AP. Police had to find a school staff member to unlock it with a key.

We still don’t know why three cops failed to stop the shooter. The school had an armed police officer on-site, who appears to have engaged Ramos but didn’t stop him. (The cop was unharmed). Then two more engaged him. They were injured, per the AP. Then there’s the fact that “at 1:06 p.m., more than an hour and a half after those first 911 calls were made, the Uvalde Police Department said that the shooter ‘was in police custody,’” reported journalist Tess Owen of Vice News.

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