WATCH: Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw criticizes law enforcement response in #Uvalde school shooting calling it “an abject failure.” MORE: https://t.co/UZ2mN4Lrm8 pic.twitter.com/zXwxJRBS1r — KXAN News (@KXAN_News) June 21, 2022 By Jim Vertuno and Jake Bleiberg,…
From the AP . . . Multiple police officers armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield stood and waited in a school hallway for nearly an hour while a gunman carried out a…
By Dan Sanchez Why did they wait? That question must haunt the families of the nineteen children and two adults who were massacred in Uvalde, Texas last week in light of recent revelations about the…
By Lindsay Whitehurst, AP Since the Columbine High School massacre more than 20 years ago, police have been trained to quickly confront shooters in the horrific attacks that have followed. But officers in Uvalde, Texas, took more…
Post-Columbine, some high-profile examples of law enforcement interdiction of active shooters that came under critical scrutiny include: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Connecticut (December 14, 2012). After murdering his mother at home, 20-year-old Adam Lanza kills…
As more details of tragic shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas emerge, one disturbing thing now stands out: the apparently long, long time it took to end the threat to the children in…