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July 13, 2022

Video Shows Delayed Police Response as Uvalde Gunman Rampaged Through School
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In Texas, the Austin-American Statesman has published video of the May
24 massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. The video corroborates
earlier press accounts that law enforcement officers - many of them with
ballistic shields and powerful weapons - waited in the school's hallway
for well over an hour before a team finally confronted the gunman and
shot him dead.

At Tuesday's meeting of the Uvalde City Council, Mayor Don Mc Laughlin
blasted news outlets for releasing the video; he and other city
councilmembers said families should have had a chance to view the
footage before its public release.

Mayor Don Mc Laughlin: "The way that video was released today was one of
the most chicken things I've ever seen."

Councilmember Ernest King III: "The mayor said 'chicken.' It was
chickensh*t" -

Mayor Don Mc Laughlin: "Yeah."

Councilmember Ernest King III: - "to release that video the way you
did."

Adam Martinez: "What about the cops? Are they chickensh*t?"

Councilmember Ernest King III: We're - we're going to handle that."

Adam Martinez: "You said that they did a good job. Do you still think
they did a good job?"

Mayor Don Mc Laughlin: "Adam, I'm not going to get into an argument with
you on that deal. I haven't seen the video yet."

Confronting Mayor Mc Laughlin was Adam Martinez, whose 8-year-old son
was inside Robb Elementary during the shooting. Martinez blasted the
mayor for failing to criticize the police response.

Adam Martinez: "Everybody else, the whole world knows that they're
chickensh*t. But it won't come out of his mouth, for whatever reason.
He's lying to himself. And we need to see that he holds them
accountable. He needs to be seeing the same thing that we're seeing;
otherwise, we're not going to be on the same side."



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