As police waited, children inside Texas school called 911 begging for help
by Kevin Rector, Jenny Jarvie, Richard Winton and Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times
May 27, 2022
3 minutes
UVALDE, Texas — Children inside a Texas elementary school begged the police to enter their classroom and save them, repeatedly calling 911, as a team of 19 police officers waited in the corridor for an hour because a commander believed the situation had shifted from active shooter to a barricaded subject, a Texas law enforcement officer said Friday.
“Of course, it wasn’t the right decision. Period.” Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said at a news conference.
With pressure mounting to explain the delayed police response to the massacre that killed 19 children and
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