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Report on Uvalde Mass Shooting Cites “Systemic Failures” by Nearly 400 Officers on Scene

HeadlineJul 18, 2022

Nearly 400. That’s the number of law enforcement officials who rushed to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24 after they got word of a mass shooting. A new report from the Texas state Legislature cited “systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making” by the officers who took more than an hour to engage the gunman, who killed 19 fourth graders and their two teachers. Investigators determined “law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training, and they failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety.” Texas state Representative Dustin Burrows chairs the Texas House Committee on the Robb Elementary Shooting.

Rep. Dustin Burrows: “If there’s only one thing that I can tell you, is there were multiple systemic failures. I would invite everybody to read the entire report. You cannot cherry-pick one sentence and use it to say everything without reading it all together and with context. But if we need a simple phrase to describe what the report says, again, I would tell you 'multiple systemic failures.'”

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