Despite what the Uvalde police have claimed, namely that the door was locked to the school room which harbored the gunman, newly released security footage shows three officers in tactical equipment waiting outside in the hallway. No one tried the door to the classroom.

 

As the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety just stated, the commander at the scene of the shooting delayed confronting the gunman because he “waited for a key that was never needed.

 

 

 

During that critical time, some children were still alive and calling 911 for help; one student told CNN she smeared herself with her friend’s blood and played dead.
Texas Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat, told CNN on Monday that the reporting underscored his questions about why police did not try to breach the doors sooner.
“We see that there (are) officers with adequate munitions, adequate equipment to be able to breach that room,” he said. “i just don’t understand why that didn’t happen, why they didn’t breach the room.
“Those answers need to be had. They shouldn’t be dribbling through the media in this way. We should have law enforcement agencies tell us exactly what went wrong. And the fact that we’re not getting that information is just a travesty in and of itself.”
As grieving families reacted in anger to the new report, one Dad, whose 10-year-old son Jose Flores Jr was killed reacted with anguish:
“They let our kids down, left them in there scared and, who knows, crying. They abandoned them,” Flores cried. 
“They’re supposed to be trained professionals,” Flores said of the police. “I don’t understand the reason why they stood back that long for them to go back in … Standing back a whole hour, leaving them inside with that gunman, is not right. It’s cowardly, cowardly, cowardly stuff.”