by Katie Balevic at Insider
- Some 376 officers were at Robb Elementary School amid the Uvalde shooting, according to a new report.
- A majority were federal and state officers, including 149 Border Patrol agents and 91 Texas DPS officers.
- Officers “failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety,” the report said.
A total of 376 law enforcement officers were at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas when a gunman was at large for over an hour on May 24, leaving 21 people dead.
A majority of the officers were federal and state actors, including 149 US Border Patrol officers and 91 Texas Department of Public Safety officers. Twenty-five officers were from the Uvalde Police Department, and 16 were from the Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office.
“They failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety,” according to an interim report released Sunday by the Texas House investigative committee on the shooting.
The report, reviewed by Insider, assessed the disorganized response from multiple law enforcement agencies, some of which have changed their facts about the shooting over a dozen times. Until the release of the report, blame had primarily been focused on Uvalde Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who was widely criticized for deciding to wait over an hour, 73 minutes, for backup instead of confronting the shooter, who was ultimately killed by US Border Patrol officers…
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