He said Uvalde would become “the safest city in Texas in two months”
Moments after his apology came an unexpected promise. after the agency sends DPS troopers to aid Uvalde police with area crimes.on Thursday, just days after he spoke with USA Today and said he hoped state troopers had taken control of the Robb shooting response.
McCraw has previously blamed Uvalde police and Uvalde CISD police for the “abject failure” of the law enforcement response, which led to a large delay in stopping the gunman., McCraw said he wished his agency had led the police response on May 24. He apologized to the families impacted by the Robb Elementary shooting during his interview with KVUE and said the response “violated all the principles” learned by law enforcement.“I’ll be glad to apologize to the families on behalf of law enforcement, because I’ve testified before it was an abject failure. It violated all the principles that we’ve learned so much over the years... You must locate, isolate, and neutralize.
A total of 376 law enforcement officers were called to Robb Elementary during the shooting, but they treated the incident as a barricaded subject instead of an active shooter.On Sept. 6, DPS announced five of its officers are facing an investigation for their actions during the shooting response.
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