{"id":1494737,"date":"2022-05-27T13:15:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494737"},"modified":"2022-05-27T13:15:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:15:12","slug":"of-course-it-was-not-the-right-decision-dps-director-says-cops-should-have-charged-uvalde-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/of-course-it-was-not-the-right-decision-dps-director-says-cops-should-have-charged-uvalde-school\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Of Course It Was Not The Right Decision!\u2019: DPS Director Says Cops Should Have Charged Uvalde School"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fof-course-it-was-not-the-right-decision-dps-director-says-cops-should-have-charged-uvalde-school%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494737&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw said Friday that police officers were wrong to wait for tactical backup before breaching Robb Elementary School to take down the active shooter on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>McCraw responded to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/im-having-flashbacks-parkland-dad-excoriates-uvalde-cops-for-waiting-to-breach-school\/\">criticisms<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/they-couldve-been-shot-texas-cop-explains-why-police-waited-to-enter-uvalde-school\/\">police response<\/a> to the shooting during a press conference, and while he noted that things can certainly become chaotic and confused in real time, he also said that there were very specific directives that officers were trained to follow in active shooter situations.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Of course it was not the right decision!&#8221; TX DPS Director says cops should have charged <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Uvalde?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Uvalde<\/a> school. &#8220;Every officer lines up stacks up, goes and finds where the rounds are being fired at and keeps shooting until the subject is dead, period.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9qOL0jHXbx\">pic.twitter.com\/9qOL0jHXbx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VAKruta\/status\/1530224534128828420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McCraw began by explaining that while there were 19 officers on the scene \u2014 which he said would have been more than enough to move on the suspect \u2014 but that the incident commander at the scene had opted to respond based on a \u201cbarricaded suspect\u201d scenario rather than an \u201cactive shooter\u201d scenario.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident commander inside believed they needed more equipment and more officers to do a tactical breach of that point,\u201d McCraw explained, noting that they had immediately called for backup and then executed a \u201cdynamic entry\u201d when it arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone began talking at once then, and McCraw held up his hands. \u201cFor the benefit of hindsight, the hey, standby. Standby. Hey. Standby. I\u2019ve got it. I\u2019ve got it. Okay,\u201d he said. \u201cHey, for the benefit of hindsight where I am sitting now, of course it was not the right decision it was the wrong decision period. There is no excuse for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, I wasn\u2019t there but I am just telling you from what we know we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can, hey, when there is an active shooter the rules change,\u201d McCraw continued, adding, \u201cIt is no longer a barricaded subject. You don\u2019t have time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCraw went on to note that, in an active shooter situation, the doctrine demanded that they go in whether they felt as though they had enough people or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the way, Texas embraces active shooter training, active shooter certification. That doctrine requires officers, we don\u2019t care what agency you are from you don\u2019t have to have a leader on the scene,\u201d McCraw said. \u201cEvery officer lines, up stacks up, goes and finds where the rounds are being fired at, and keeps shooting to the subject is dead, period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw said Friday that police officers were wrong to wait for tactical backup before breaching Robb Elementary School to take down the active shooter on Tuesday afternoon. McCraw responded to criticisms of the police response to the shooting during a press conference, and while he noted that things can certainly become &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1494771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}