XPost: alt.politics.immigration, alt.politics.usa.republican, alt.atheism   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: chicken_tacos@democrats.rus   
      
   In article    
   governor.swill@gmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   > Kamala screws everything with a dick.  Skanks do that.   
      
   Uvalde, Texas (CNN)A preliminary report by the Texas House   
   investigative committee probing the Uvalde, Texas, school   
   massacre outlines a series of failures by multiple law   
   enforcement agencies, describing "an overall lackadaisical   
   approach" by authorities on the scene of the shooting in which   
   21 people were killed.   
      
   It's just one of the findings in the 77-page report, which also   
   details failures by several other entities, including the Uvalde   
   school system, the shooter's family and social media platforms.   
      
   But through its investigation, the committee didn't find any   
   "villains" beyond the shooter, according to a copy of the report   
   reviewed by CNN.   
      
   "There is no one to whom we can attribute malice or ill   
   motives," the report says. "Instead, we found systemic failures   
   and egregious poor decision making."   
      
   The document, which was made available to the victims' families   
   Sunday morning, is described as an "interim report," with the   
   investigative committee noting its work remains incomplete and   
   that multiple investigations remain underway. But it marks the   
   first time since the shooting at Robb Elementary that a   
   government report has offered a comprehensive look at the   
   shooting and the law enforcement response, which has been   
   heavily criticized.   
      
   In the days after the attack, officials gave contradictory and   
   confusing information, and key questions about the police   
   response have remained unanswered since the May 24 shooting.   
   Chief among them -- why authorities waited more than an hour in   
   the school hallway before confronting and killing the gunman, a   
   move that law enforcement experts say may have potentially cost   
   lives.   
      
   Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw   
   called authorities' response an "abject failure" in a hearing   
   before a Texas Senate committee last month, placing blame at the   
   feet of the on-scene commander, who state authorities have   
   identified as district police chief Pedro "Pete" Arredondo.   
      
   Arredondo, who was put on administrative leave by the school   
   district, told the Texas Tribune last month he did not consider   
   himself the incident commander and assumed that another official   
   had taken control of the larger response.   
      
   The committee's report, however, describes "shortcoming and   
   failures of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District   
   and of various agencies and officers of law enforcement."   
      
   A number of responding officers were from federal agencies, per   
   the report: Of the 376 responders, 149 were from the United   
   States Border Patrol, 14 were from the Department of Homeland   
   Security and 91 were from the Texas DPS.   
      
   CNN has reached out to Texas DPS, US Border Patrol, the Uvalde   
   School District, the city's police department and the Uvalde   
   district attorney for comment, among others.   
      
   Families to meet with committee Sunday   
   The report comes nearly eight weeks after an 18-year-old gunman   
   walked into Robb Elementary and began firing inside adjoining   
   classrooms, killing 19 children and two teachers.   
      
   Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows, the committee chairman,   
   said last month the group would do "everything in its power" to   
   provide facts and answers about what happened "leading up to,   
   during, and in the aftermath of this tragedy."   
      
   Members of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Uvalde   
   Consolidated Independent School District police chief and   
   officers, the district superintendent, the school's principal, a   
   teacher and custodial staff are among those who testified behind   
   closed doors to the committee -- with roughly 40 people   
   testifying, according to one source.   
      
   The committee did not have access to material witnesses, the   
   report says, and medical examiners have not issued reports about   
   their findings. But the investigative committee "believes this   
   interim report constitutes the most compelling telling to date,"   
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)