Well, now to the new report from the Justice Department
on the Uvalde school shooting,
detailing what it calls cascading failures by law enforcement that
cost lives.
Maria Villarreal is in Uvalde,
TX with the details. Good morning,
Maria.
Hey, good morning, Eva. You know,
from the jump, the Department of Justice made it clear
this report would not necessarily mean criminal charges.
That's the responsibility of the District Attorney here in Uvalde.
And while the report may not have provided closure,
it certainly provides indisputable clarity.
This morning, a scathing new report from the Justice Department
paints a fuller picture of the law enforcement response to
the Uvalde school shooting.
The law enforcement response to the mass shooting at Robb
Elementary was a failure.
The 600 page report finding officers didn't swiftly confront the
gunman during the school shooting in Texas that took the
lives of 19 children and two teachers in May of
2022 as a consequence of failed leadership training and policies.
Injured and scared students and teachers remain trapped with a
subject in the classroom.
Waiting to be rescued Attorney General Merrick Garland,
saying some law enforcement leaders wasted time treating the Nuvalle
gunman as a barricaded subject and not as an active
shooter.
77 minutes passed before police entered the classroom and took
down the shooter,
the report also shedding light on what happened after the
shooting.
Victims who had already passed away were taken to the
hospital in ambulances.
Well, children with bullet wounds were put on school buses
without any medical attention.
For grieving families, I hope that the failures end today.
And the local officials.
Do what wasn't done that day.
Do right by the victims and survivors of Rob Elementary.
The work isn't over. What is your big take away?
Hearing the attorney General say that if the officers would
have gone in,
there could have been a possibility that more kids would
have been saved.
The local District Attorney has not yet commented on the
report.
In fact, she said yesterday she hadn't even read it.
But they are continuing with their own independent investigation.
The governor here in Texas is also weighed in saying
they've already implemented a number of recommendations that were in
this DOJ report based off of their own state LED
review. George, OK, Maria, thanks.