Police made the “wrong decision” when they waited nearly an hour instead of knocking down a classroom door and confronting the Texas mass murderer as schoolchildren lay dead, injured and demanding ransom, he admitted. last night a chief of law enforcement.
Colonel Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, burst into tears during a press conference when he revealed startling failures in the management of the shooting at Robb Elementary School, Uvalde, in which 19 children and two were killed. teachers.
“Of course, it wasn’t the right decision, it was the wrong decision. Period. There’s no excuse for that,” he said.
There were 19 officers out of the classroom, McGraw said, but “the incident commander believed they needed more equipment and officers to do so.