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Nearly 20 police officers waited for nearly an hour in a hallway outside the classrooms where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in a Texas elementary school, even as panicked 911 calls were placed from inside the rooms pleading for police to intervene, authorities said on Friday.
At least one child and one teacher made multiple calls to the 911 emergency number from the two connecting classrooms after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos had entered with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, according to Colonel Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Note Every one of these police should be charged with Murder and dereliction of duty, and of course FIRED!

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Heartlander · 80-89, M

Both Abbott and McCray overstepped. McCray added a "but I wasn't there" qualifier but you can't unring a bell. Both should have shared the facts and not their opinions, yet.

If it hasn't already, the investigation will slow down fast while all the police officers lawyer-up and refuse to make statements or participate in the investigation except when accompanied by legal representation. To understand what Abbott and McCray did, go watch that movie about "Scully". $Billions in lawsuits, possible criminal charges, and years of mean-spirited press coverage may hinge on what gets told to investigators, so be sure to rehearse and filter whatever gets said through a lawyer experienced in such matters.

Whatever mistake the Uvalde police made appears to have also been made by the Border Patrol tactical commander who took 30+ minutes after they arrived before storming the shooter.