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Thursday, January 18, 2024

DOJ Releases Scathing Report On Uvalde Shooting

From the Austin American-Statesman: "'Failure': DOJ's scathing Uvalde school shooting report criticizes law enforcement response."

    The report described a chaotic, unorganized scene in which there was no command and control by officers — during a period when children were calling 911 for help — and it put blame on the school's police chief who tried negotiating with a killer who had already shot his way into the classroom while having his officers search for keys to unlock the rooms. The report laid bare that, immediately after the tragedy, government leaders provided misleading and inaccurate information and in the months that followed, the Uvalde families were left to suffer by a lack of resources for trauma care and by those in charge of answering questions not providing a full accounting. 

    To compile the nearly 500-page report released Thursday — just blocks from the mass shooting site at Robb Elementary — the Justice Department’s team collected and reviewed more than 14,000 pieces of data and documentation, including training logs, audio, video, photographs, personal records and investigative records. On the ground, federal investigators conducted more than 260 interviews of people involved or affected, including police officers, elected officials, hospital workers and survivors

And:

    According to the report:

  • Eleven officers from the Uvalde school district and Uvalde Police Department arrived on the scene within three minutes of the shooter’s entry into the school. Five advanced initially and two were hit by shrapnel. Police made three attempts to enter the classrooms, which are adjoined by an interior door.
  • Pete Arredondo, then the chief of the Uvalde school district's police department, "directed officers at several points to delay making entry into classrooms in favor of searching for keys and clearing other classrooms,” the report found. He also tried to negotiate with the shooter and treated him as a barricaded subject instead of a continuing threat to children and school staff, the report says.
  • Victims who had died were put on ambulances and sent to hospitals, while injured students were evacuated in buses. One adult victim was placed on the ground on a walkway to be attended to. She died there. 

"The report concludes that had law enforcement agencies followed generally accepted practices and gone right after the shooter to stop him, lives would have been saved and people would have survived," Garland said. 

You can download a copy of the report from the DOJ website

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4 comments:

  1. Once again, "you are your own first responder" comes to the fore.

    Exactly how that comes to be in school systems run by, and for the benefit of, radical Leftists I do not know. I do know that every child in a school should know how to get out of the building forthwith and do so without any hesitation - or "official" approval - the very moment anything seems out of place. Much better to be castigated tomorrow by the Leftist School Overlords than tallied as a statistic today.

    Depending on bureaucratic stuctures for rapid and effective performance in the face of disaster and tragedy seems to be just a different way of committing suicide.

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  2. I, frankly, am surprised that none of the popo haven't 'dropped dead suddenly' or something of that sort.

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  3. They cut the screams of the children out of the tapes.

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    1. They would have needed to in order to support their defense that they were "not aware" that it was an ongoing active shooting situation.

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