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   May 27, 2022   
   Updated: May 27, 2022 10:11 p.m.   
      
   Gov. Greg Abbott pauses before answering a reporter’s question   
   during a press conference Friday, May 27, 2022, at Uvalde High   
   School in Uvalde. He said he had been initially misled about the   
   police response to the shooting, and called for a thorough   
   investigation.   
   Gov. Greg Abbott pauses before answering a reporter’s question   
   during a press conference Friday, May 27, 2022, at Uvalde High   
   School in Uvalde. He said he had been initially misled about the   
   police response to the shooting, and called for a thorough   
   investigation.   
      
   Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer   
   Frantic, wailing parents confined by yellow crime scene tape   
   plead with police officers outside Robb Elementary, pushing and   
   pacing with the desperation of pent-up animals headed to   
   slaughter. Except it isn’t their own slaughter they’re trying to   
   stop; it’s their children’s.   
      
   In cellphone footage that’s emerged from the chaotic scene that   
   unfolded Tuesday as a teen gunman rampaged inside with an AR-15-   
   style rifle, mothers and fathers are seen pleading, screaming   
   for officers to do something to save their children, or at the   
   very least, to let parents — without guns, without armor, with   
   bare hands, if need be — charge into the school and give their   
   babies a fighting chance.   
      
   “You know that they are kids, right?” a man yells in one video.   
   “They’re little kids and they don’t know how to defend   
   themselves!”   
      
   The officers refuse. Instead, as children faced an imminent   
   threat inside, officers busied themselves corralling parents,   
   patrolling the barrier with Tasers and even handcuffing and   
   subduing parents on the ground if they didn’t comply, according   
   to video and witness accounts.   
      
   For nearly an hour, as gunshots rang out through Robb   
   Elementary, as bullets fatally pierced the little bodies of   
   captive fourth-graders in two adjoining classrooms, as some   
   children clung to hope by repeatedly calling 911 for help —   
   “Please send the police now,” one girl begged more than an hour   
   into the siege — no help came.   
      
   Earlier this week, Gov. Greg Abbott drew harsh criticism for   
   saying the massacre of 19 elementary school children and their   
   two teachers could have been worse. Nothing, many of us thought,   
   could be worse.   
      
   We were wrong.   
      
   Revelations that Abbott’s initial heroic law enforcement   
   narrative was a complete fabrication, and that many other   
   details he relayed were false, only deepen the pain and rage.   
      
   “The reason it was not worse is because law enforcement   
   officials do what they do,” Abbott said solemnly at a news   
   conference Wednesday. “They showed amazing courage, by running   
   toward gunfire, for the singular purpose of trying to save   
   lives.”   
      
   In reality, newly emerging timelines from officials with the   
   Texas Department of Public Safety depict excruciating delays,   
   tragic false assumptions and a clumsy if not cowardly response   
   by officers or their commanders sworn to protect the vulnerable   
   children who needed them.   
      
   “They should have moved in,” Jesse Rodriguez, who lost a   
   daughter and a niece in the shooting, told CNN. “I don’t think   
   they had a right to sit there on their ass waiting.”   
      
   The governor, who says he merely relayed the information given   
   to him, at first told us the gunman had engaged with a school   
   resource officer. Never happened, law enforcement officials now   
   say.   
      
   Apparently, after shooting his grandmother in the face, the   
   gunman crashed a truck by the school, opened fire on people at a   
   funeral home nearby, then roamed around outside the school   
   building for 10 to 12 minutes. Having drawn two 911 calls by   
   then, and by some accounts more, he entered the school,   
   completely unobstructed through an unlocked door.   
      
   We were initially told officers couldn’t enter during an   
   agonizing period of time because the gunman had barricaded the   
   door. In fact, there was no barricade, DPS said Friday, and it   
   didn’t appear anyone even tried to open the classroom door.   
      
   Law enforcement officers appear to have attempted to enter the   
   school early but retreated after taking fire. As numbers of   
   officers grew, they converged in the hallways outside the   
   classrooms where children lay dead, dying or injured, and merely   
   waited until the massacre was over.   
      
      
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