On Sunday, a 77-page report was published about the perpetrator and the efforts of the police in Uvalde during the school shooting at Robb primary school. The findings of the report show a failure in the system, not only with local police, but also with national police authorities. 19 children and 2 teachers were killed in the attack on 24 May. The police effort was uncoordinated and lasted for over an hour, according to the report. Among other things, there was confusion about who led the operation. Pete Arredondo was responsible for school security in the district, and several of the police officers have since said that they thought he was the leader. Others at the scene have said they did not know who led the operation. Arredondo, for his part, has stated that he did not see himself as the leader of the operation. “The lack of leadership may have contributed to the loss of life because injured victims waited over an hour for help, and the shooter continued to sporadically release his weapon”, the report states. The school shooting in Uvalde in May killed 19 children and 2 teachers. Photo: KAYLEE GREENLEE BEAL / Reuters Dissatisfied families The perpetrator started firing shots before he had entered the school building. A teacher heard the shots and called police. Shortly afterwards, the perpetrator enters the school and starts firing. Video footage was published of the Austin American-Statesman showing police officers standing in the school corridors while the shooter stormed the school. The video has edited away the sound of children screaming and hiding the face of one student who saw the shooter in the hallway. A student had called 911 from a classroom while police were standing in the hallway. When the report was presented yesterday, the family members of some of the victims were present, and clearly dissatisfied. – Texas failed the students. Police failed the students, said Vincent Salazar, the grandfather of the schoolgirl Layla Salazar who was killed. The grandfather of one of the victims, Vincent Salazar, is dissatisfied with the police’s efforts. Photo: AARON E. MARTINEZ / USA TODAY NETW / Reuters – They were sworn in, had divorced and unlimited resources, and they have to pay for what they have done, says Sergio Garcia, the father of 10-year-old Uziyah Sergio Garcia who was killed for ABC News. System failure Following an investigation in the wake of the school shooting in Columbine in 1999, it was decided that police officers should not wait to confront the shooter in school shootings. The report is the first report of the shooting in Uvalde that blames national police authorities in addition to locals. Police are standing outside Robb Primary School after the shooting. Photo: Dario Lopez-Mills / AP Even after police officers with bulletproof shields, it took almost 50 minutes before they confronted the shooter. Most of the on-site police officers worked for the state and U.S. border control. – They failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety, it says in the report about the police officers at the scene.
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