Controversy after the shooting Uvalde – Forty minutes when the police did nothing

– The forty minutes when the police did nothing

Why did no one arrest earlier the author of the shooting which killed 21 people, including 19 children, on Tuesday, in this Texas elementary school? Anger grows.

Posted today at 12:44 p.m.

evacuated children from primary school Robb, Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022.

REUTERS/Pete Luna

“Please send the police now.”

A pupil of the primary school of Uvalde

“It was a bad decision. Period. There is no excuse for this.” Faced with the media, visibly tested, the director of public security in Texas, Steven McCraw, admitted on Friday the succession of blunders in the police operation in Uvalde.

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Why did the officers, massed in the corridors of the school, waited forty minutes in front of the class before launching the assault, while the children were calling for help and the parents rushing to the scene begging them to intervene? Why wasn’t the back door the killer entered locked as required by security rules? Why did we wait for the concierge with the key?