AUSTIN — For the first time since the May 24 shooting, the public can now see portions of video from the scene of the Uvalde shooting, including the first...
The video, abridged and edited to removed children’s screams, depict how police amassed inside Robb Elementary School three minutes after the gunman entered, but failed to take action for more than an hour, defying active shooter training that calls on law enforcement officers to take out a threat even at the cost of their own lives.
The publication of the video comes as the chairman of a Texas House committee investigating the Uvalde school shooting indicated Tuesday that he would defy a local district attorney and release video from within Robb Elementary School to the public. After the footage was published Tuesday, Burrows said he was glad some of the footage was available to the public, but that “watching the entire segment of law enforcement’s response, or lack thereof, is also important.”
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