The victims and survivors of the mass shooting at Rob
Elementary on May 24th,
2022.
Deserve better, first and foremost.
The 19 children and their two teachers who were stolen
from their loved ones should be here today.
They never have should have been targeted by a mass
shooter.
We must never forget the shooters heinous act that day.
And the victims and survivors should never have been trapped
with that shooter for more than an hour as they
waited for their rescue.
The families of the victims and survivors deserved more than
incomplete,
inaccurate, and conflicting communications about the status of their loved
ones.
This community deserved more than misinformation from officials during and
after the attack.
Responding officers here in Uvalde,
who also lost loved ones and who still bear the
emotional scars of that day,
deserve the kind of leadership and training that would have
prepared them to do the work that was required.
Our children deserve better than to grow up.
In a country where an 18 year old has easy
access to a weapon that belongs on the battlefield,
not in a classroom.
And communities across the country and the law enforcement officers
who protect them.
Deserve better than to be forced to respond to 1
horrific mass shooting after another.
But that is the terrible reality.
That we face.
And so it is a reality that every law enforcement
agency in every community across the country must be prepared
for.
No community and no law enforcement agency should have to
face that threat alone.
That is why we came to Uvalde and that is
why we are releasing this report.