A video of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, published Tuesday showed police waiting for more than an hour before breaching a classroom where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.
Steve McCraw, Texas's public safety chief, has described the police response to the May 24 attack as an "abject failure" and said officers wasted vital time looking for a classroom key that was "never needed."
The camera catches the gunman shooting dozens of rounds from the doorway before going inside. He steps out briefly into the view of the camera, reenters the classroom and is not seen again. For the next hour the police are seen huddling at the end of the hallway while reinforcements arrive, including officers armed with semi-automatic weapons and ballistic shields.
The video does not show any children being shot and the Austin American-Statesman said it had removed audio of their screams.McCraw, Texas's public safety chief, told a state Senate hearing in June that police had enough officers to stop the shooter three minutes after he entered the school. Arredondo had claimed that the classroom door was locked, delaying their move on the shooter, but McCraw told the inquiry that was not believed to be the case.McCraw told the inquiry that Arredondo, who has since been suspended, had made "terrible decisions."
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