‘Egregiously poor decision-making’ by cops left 21 dead at US school
A report on the Texas school shooting in May this year has found that chaotic response of nearly 400 law enforcement officers on spot behind one of the worst school shootings in the United States.
About two months after the Uvalde school shooting in Texas, United States, a report has been published.
That reveals the chaotic nature of the state response, creating a taint in the history of the county where gun violence remains a top concern.
An 80-page report on the Uvalde school shooting that left 21 dead was termed “devastating” and “unacceptable” by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
The damning investigative report found the nature of poor response in the incident, calling it “systemic failures and egregiously poor decision-making” by those involved in the response that caused the huge number of deaths.
“There is no one to whom we can attribute malice or ill motives. Instead, we found systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making,” it said.
The report was published on Sunday. The Texas state police on Monday announced an internal review to the incident, multiple reports said.
“This is going to set back law enforcement 20 years. It really will,” Greg Shaffer, a retired FBI agent who’s now a Dallas-based security consultant, was quoted as saying by Associated Press. “It was a calamity of errors,” he said.