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   The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety said Tuesday   
   that Uvalde police could have stopped the mass shooting at Robb   
   Elementary within three minutes, calling their response an   
   "abject failure."   
      
   Testifying before a special Texas Senate committee hearing, Col.   
   Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety,   
   told lawmakers that "There is compelling evidence that the law   
   enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary was an   
   abject failure and antithetical to everything we’ve learned over   
   the last two decades since the Columbine massacre."   
      
   "Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building,   
   there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body   
   armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject," he   
   said. "The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers   
   from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who   
   decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of   
   children."   
      
   McCraw on Tuesday again placed blamed on Pete Arredondo, the   
   Uvalde school district police chief, for deciding to put the   
   lives of officers ahead of children’s lives.   
      
   UVALDE SHOOTING: TEXAS DPS OFFICIALS BRING ROBB ELEMENTARY   
   SCHOOL DOOR INTO STATE CAPITOL AHEAD OF HEARING   
      
   His remarks are the first public comments McCraw has made   
   regarding the shooting since last month.   
      
   "The officers had weapons, while the children had none. The   
   officers had body armor, the children had none. The officers had   
   training, the subject had none," McCraw said Tuesday. "One hour,   
   14 minutes and eight seconds. That’s how long the children   
   waited, and the teachers waited, in Room 111 to be rescued. And   
   while they waited, the on-scene commander waited for radio and   
   rifles. And he waited for shields, and he waited for SWAT.   
   Lastly, he waited for a key that was never needed."   
      
   The classroom door, which Fox News Digital first reported was   
   physically brought into the state capitol for Tuesday's hearing,   
   was unlocked, but officers never even tried to open it, McCraw   
   said.   
      
   "We set our profession back a decade," he said.   
      
   McCraw testified that on video, he never saw anyone put a hand   
   on the door before the keys arrived. Yet, he said it turns out   
   the classroom door could not be locked from the inside.   
      
   The public safety chief began Tuesday by outlining for the   
   Special Committee to Protect All Texans a series of missed   
   opportunities, communication breakdowns and other mistakes.   
      
   McCraw said officers with rifles stood and waited in a school   
   hallway for nearly an hour while the 18-year-old gunman carried   
   out the attack using an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle.   
      
   Eight minutes after the shooter entered the building, an officer   
   reported that police had a "hooligan" crowbar that they could   
   use to break down the classroom door, McGraw said.   
      
   Nineteen minutes after the gunman entered, the first ballistic   
   shield was brought into the building by police, the witness   
   testified.   
      
   "It has been reported that he didn’t have a radio with him.   
   That’s true. He did not," McCraw said of Arredondo.   
      
   In addition, McCraw said police and sheriff’s radios did not   
   work within the school; only the radios of Border Patrol agents   
   on the scene worked inside the school, and even they did not   
   work perfectly.   
      
   Three days after the May 24 attack that left 19 children and two   
   teachers dead, McCraw publicly admitted that Arredondo made "the   
   wrong decision" when he chose not to storm the classroom for   
   more than 70 minutes, even as trapped fourth graders inside two   
   classrooms were desperately calling 911 for help and anguished   
   parents outside the school urged officers to go inside.   
      
   Arredondo later said he didn’t consider himself the person in   
   charge and assumed someone else had taken control of the law   
   enforcement response.   
      
   The Associated Press contributed to this report.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-official-uvalde-classroom-door-   
   unlocked-shooting-officers-waited-keys   
      
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