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The head of the Texas state police pronounced the law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting an “abject failure.”

Mayor Don McLaughlin says: ‘You can never ask a child to go back, or teacher to go back, in that school ever’

Relatives of the victims and other members of the community also called for the ousting of Pete Arredondo, who is the police chief of the city’s school district and a newly elected council member.

Texas has more than 1,200 school districts, but the education commissioner promised plans for the review will be completed this summer.

The Uvalde massacre began after the 18-year-old gunman entered the school through a door that could only be locked from the outside and then got inside a classroom that had a busted lock

New information released by law enforcement sources and the director of the Department of Public Safety tells a different story about police response to the shooting than Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo.

"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."

Salvador Ramos messaged a 15-year-old girl on social media telling her he was waiting for his grandfather to leave the house ‘before I do it’

Revelations this week show cops with armor and high-powered weapons doing nothing while a gunman kills children in a classroom feet away.

New York (AFP) - The police response to the Uvalde school massacre in Texas last month was an "abject failure," a top law enforcement official told a hearing into the tragedy Tuesday, saying officers wasted vital time looking for a classroom key that was "never needed."

Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS), testified on Tuesday morning at a state Senate hearing