DOJ Report Blasts Police “Failures” In Uvalde Shooting

The Texas Tribune reports:

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a withering report into the hundreds of Texas law enforcement officers’ fumbled response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting, finding “cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training.”

The long-anticipated 575-page report detailed the many failures of the May 24, 2022 response, but concluded the most significant was that officers should have immediately recognized that it was an active shooter situation and confronted the gunman, who was with victims in two adjoining classrooms.

It noted that since the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, American law enforcement officers have been trained to prioritize stopping the shooter while everything else, including officer safety, is secondary. “These efforts must be undertaken regardless of the equipment and personnel available,” the report found.

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BREAKING: A scathing DOJ report into the 2022 mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, described “cascading failures of leadership” and directs blame at responding officers for failing to confront the shooter sooner. https://t.co/CXgEMbpV6t

— ABC News (@ABC) January 18, 2024

BREAKING: The law enforcement response to the Uvalde mass shooting that killed 21 people, including 19 students, was a “failure,” the DOJ says in a new report. https://t.co/mxtf3KIE5h

— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) January 18, 2024