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'He put the lives of officers before the lives of children': Texas' top cop issues blistering denouncement of Uvalde's police chief and calls him an 'abject failure' as he admits gunman could have been stopped in THREE MINUTES
DM ^ | UPDATED: 13:51 EDT, 21 June 2022 | ALEX HAMMER

Posted on 06/21/2022 11:05:08 AM PDT by conservative98

Speaking at a State Senate hearing Tuesday, Texas Department of Public Safety head Steve McCraw slammed police's response to the May 24 massacre as 'an abject failure,' and that there had been enough cops at the scene to stop the gunman just three minutes into the shooting.

'Three minutes after the subject entered the west hallway, there was sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor, to isolate distract and neutralize the subject,' McCraw told the committee

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In another bombshell revelation, McCraw revealed that the door to the classroom that Ramos had been hiding behind had not been locked - contradicting earlier assertions from Arredondo's department that the chief had been trying to track down keys to open the classroom door.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; arredondo; banglist; donutwatch; dps; jbt; nra; petearredondo; police; secondamendment; texas; uvalde
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To: conservative98

I wish this Texas head of DPS was Gus McCrae. If it were there may be more than just a few broken noses.


41 posted on 06/22/2022 12:30:15 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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