Two new revelations this Sunday (17) illustrated the chaos of the Uvalde police intervention to contain the gunman who killed 21 people, including 19 children, at Robb Elementary School on May 24 this year.
The first was an almost 80-page report by Texas lawmakers that pointed to “systemic errors” in the actions of the Uvalde area police and other companies acting in response to crime.
As previously announced, it took 77 minutes for agents to enter the room where Salvador Ramos was executing the victims, and they arrived less than three minutes after the first shot was fired.
However, the document states that “law enforcement officers did not comply with their training to confront an active shooter and did not prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety.”
They also state that Ramos fired 142 shots inside the building and that the police fired at least 100 shots before entering the room. A total of 376 agents were transferred to the operation, which had no further defined coordination, according to the parliamentarians.
In interviews with the agents involved in the operation, it was found that most of them did not know who was responsible. Others said Pedro Arredondo, then chief of Uvalde district police, was responsible. In fact, it was the border police who broke down the room’s door and killed Ramos without Arredondo’s approval.
On Sunday night, broadcaster “CNN” released a new video of the disastrous police action. The camera was in the uniform of one of the agents and you can see the lack of coordination between them.
The footage shows an agent requesting Ramos before he surrenders – no response – and another with a few keys to the rooms’ doors. It is still possible to hear a conversation in which the police reported that there was ‘a room full of victims’ over the radio.
About half an hour before this news, teacher Eva Mirales called an agent named Ruben Ruiz to say that she was injured by a sniper. He died in another shot fired by Ramos soon after.
Arredondo was fired during the investigations and has not made any public statements about the case since. However, shortly after what was considered the second deadliest attack on a US school, the agent said it took a long time to get inside and had little effect, as he did not know how many snipers were inside.
source: Noticias
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