But just hours Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin later criticized the lack of DPS of transparency and accused its director, Colonel Stephen McCraw, of intentionally minimizing their agency’s mistakes.
“Colonel McCraw has a plan, and he must not represent full report on what happened and give actual answers on what happened to it community.”
However, the authorities repeatedly changed their account of key facts about what happened in the rooms and what the police did in response within those 77 minutes.
He blamed Uvalde School District Police Chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo. who McCraw and others have defined as on-stage leader of ordering police wait in adjacent corridor for unnecessary equipment and the keys to a door that wasn’t even locked.
“Three minutes after the subject entered the West building, there were sufficient of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject,” he said. of loyal officers from entering rooms 111 and 112 were on-stage leader who I decided place life of officers before life of children.”
CNN reached out to the Department of Texas of Public Safety District Attorney office chair of Texas and San Antonio House of Representatives Investigative Committee office of FBI for farther comment.
Mayor says he is disappointed by the absence of transparency
Arredondo, who was also elected to city tip this yearstayed out of in public eye from the moment of shooting. He testified behind closed the doors to a Texas House of Representatives committee on Tuesday, but he didn’t speak at length about his decision- production on day of shooting.
Also at the meeting, McLaughlin noted that members of at least eight law enforcement agencies were in hallway outside classes on day of shooting. McLaughlin said he had no desire to elected office again and does not cover up for anyone,” say all responding agencies should be responsible.
He said the leak of certain bits of information over in past weeks” continues to create havoc in our community and saves all truth from parish out.”
“I just how disappointed – maybe not as disappointed as the families who lost their loved ones – but it pisses me off off that i can’t give you answer or you can’t get answers,” McLaughlin said.
“What is important to Uvalde is that these families are heartbroken and this grief community get full investigation and accurate report of what happened that day. Petty feuds, clickbait headlines, and politically motivated scapegoating don’t help. anyone. He shares community and even more disappointing for grieving families,” he said. added.
McLaughlin said he was supposed to receive a daily briefing from the authorities from the beginning, but was never provided.
” gloves are off. Like us know this, we will share It. We’re not going to keep back more,” he said.
DPS director plans release video from the camera
Tuesday’s events came after reports from CNN, the Texas Tribune and the Austin American-Statesman of DPS graph and revealed further weaknesses in police response.
Referring to the DPS assessment, McCraw told a state Senate committee Tuesday that Uwalde’s school police radio stations would not operate inside the school. building due to weaker signal. According to him, the border patrol agents had the only portable radios that could work, but when the border patrol tried patch their signals together with devices of local law enforcement agencies, their radios are not work or.
McCraw said the DPS planned to release body camera footage at some point.
“Whenever the DA approves it, we’re going to release everything. body camera coverage, we’re going to release all the school and funeral videos,” he said.
CNN’s Andy Rose, Rosa Flores, Christina Maksouris, Amanda Musa, Rosalina Nieves, Rebecca Riess, and Steve Almasi contributed to this report.
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