UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An investigation Uvalde city leaders ordered into the Robb Elementary School shooting cleared local police officers of wrongdoing Thursday, despite acknowledging a series of rippling failures during the fumbled response to the 2022 classroom attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

Several family members of victims walked out in anger midway though a presentation that portrayed Uvalde Police Department officers of acting swiftly and appropriately, in contrast to scathing and sweeping past reports that faulted police at every level.

“You said they did it in good faith. You call that good faith? They stood there 77 minutes,” said Kimberly Mata-Rubio, whose daughter was among those killed in the attack, after the presentation ended.

Another person in the crowd screamed, “Cowards!”

Jesse Prado, an Austin-based investigator and former police detective who made the report for the Uvalde City Council on Thursday, described several failures by responding local, state and federal officers at the scene that day: communication problems, poor training for live shooter situations, lack of available equipment and delays on breaching the classroom.

“There were problems all day long with communication and lack of it. The officers had no way of knowing what was being planned, what was being said,” Prado said. “If they would have had a ballistic shield, it would have been enough to get them to the door.”

  • MushuChupacabra
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    317 months ago

    Actual consequences and meaningful change, would be dependent on citizens not voting Republican from Governor down to town dog catcher.

  • Nualkris
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    237 months ago

    Yet they solidly reelected the sheriff. All that matters in (most of) Texas is that you have an R after your name

  • @[email protected]
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    227 months ago

    And they just re-elected the same sherif. Man, when letting children die while you cower outside is what they want I suppose.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      I’m sure the parents of uvalde robb elementary school voted against him, but the other residents voted for him because the tragedy didn’t happen to them.

    • @[email protected]
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      67 months ago

      In the face of findings that they failed in every conceivable way to uphold their responsibility to the community and those that they were sworn to protect, they can fall back on, “Sure, but did we DO wrong?”