{"id":1525261,"date":"2022-06-21T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T20:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525261"},"modified":"2022-06-21T16:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T20:04:34","slug":"abject-failure-tx-police-commander-says-key-was-not-needed-uvalde-gunman-couldve-been-stopped-in-three-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abject-failure-tx-police-commander-says-key-was-not-needed-uvalde-gunman-couldve-been-stopped-in-three-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Abject Failure\u2019: TX Police Commander Says Key \u2018Was Not Needed,\u2019 Uvalde Gunman Could\u2019ve Been Stopped In Three Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Fabject-failure-tx-police-commander-says-key-was-not-needed-uvalde-gunman-couldve-been-stopped-in-three-minutes%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=1525261&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>The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety on Tuesday called the police response to the Uvalde school shooting an \u201cabject failure,\u201d adding that the shooter could have been apprehended within three minutes of entering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/uvalde\">Robb Elementary School<\/a> as officers waited for \u201ca key that was not needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old male, who will not be named per Daily Wire policy, killed 19 students and two teachers at the elementary school on May 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary was an abject failure and antithetical to everything we\u2019ve learned over the last two decades since the Columbine massacre,\u201d said Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree minutes after the subject entered the West building, there was sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject,\u201d McCraw continued. \u201cThe only thing stopping the hallway of dedicated officers from entering room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas police commander says officers could have stopped the gunman in Uvalde school shooting within three minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZekeJMiller\/status\/1539259335771144193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne error; 14 minutes and eight seconds,\u201d the director said of the young students waiting in a classroom for police to save them.<\/p>\n<p>McCraw said officers were, in part, waiting for a \u201ckey that was not needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have great reasons to believe it was never secured,\u201d he testified. \u201cHow about trying the door and seeing if it\u2019s locked?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, not enough training was done in this situation, plain and simple. Because terrible decisions were made by the on-site commander,\u201d McCraw blasted.<\/p>\n<p>The response to the tragedy has been heavily scrutinized. One mother claimed she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mom-briefly-handcuffed-for-urging-cops-to-enter-school-then-rushed-in-to-save-her-kids-report\">briefly handcuffed<\/a> by U.S. Marshals before she ran into the school herself to save her two children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police were doing nothing,\u201d mother Angeli Rose Gomez accused, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/uvalde-residents-voice-frustration-over-shooting-response-11653588161?mod=panda_wsj_author_alert\">according<\/a> to The Wall Street Journal.\u00a0\u201cThey were just standing outside the fence. They weren\u2019t going in there or running anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gomez said \u201cshe was one of numerous parents waiting outside the school who began encouraging\u2014 first politely, and then with more urgency \u2014 police and other law enforcement to enter the school sooner,\u201d the Journal report outlined. \u201cAfter a few minutes, she said, U.S. Marshals put her in handcuffs, telling her she was being arrested for intervening in an active investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Desperate to reach her children, the mother said she was able to convince local Uvalde officers whom she knew to get the marshals to un-cuff her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce freed from her cuffs, Ms. Gomez made her distance from the crowd, jumped the school fence, and ran inside to grab her two children,\u201d the report detailed. \u201cShe sprinted out of the school with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/uvalde-residents-voice-frustration-over-shooting-response-11653588161?mod=panda_wsj_author_alert\">denied<\/a> to the Journal that any parents were put in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TX DPS Director Steve McCraw: <\/p>\n<p>&#39;The officers had weapons \u2026 [they] had body armor. The children had none.&#39;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cresponse to the Uvalde shooting was an \u2018abject failure,\u2019 as the on-scene commander waited for things like a key \u2018that was never needed.\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WT1nWR2B4i\">pic.twitter.com\/WT1nWR2B4i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6Skyleigh Heinen\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Sky_Lee_1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sky_Lee_1\/status\/1539261626037198848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/uvalde-gunman-threatened-school-shootings-rapes-leading-up-to-massacre-social-media-users-say\">Uvalde Gunman Threatened School Shootings, Rapes Leading Up To Massacre, Social Media Users\u00a0Say<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety on Tuesday called the police response to the Uvalde school shooting an \u201cabject failure,\u201d adding that the shooter could have been apprehended within three minutes of entering\u00a0Robb Elementary School as officers waited for \u201ca key that was not needed.\u201d An 18-year-old male, who will not be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1510032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525261","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\/1525261","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}