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July 18, 2022

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