Texas DPS’ initial press releases from their investigation have said exactly that. The incident commander on scene (Uvalde CISD) decided it was a barricaded suspect situation and forbade any officer from going in, even though gunshots were still being heard on 911 calls from the classroom *for more than 20 minutes*. One presumes the officers outside the classroom were also hearing the shots, but since we don’t have their statements yet I suppose it is possible they somehow didn’t hear an unsupressed long barrel AR pattern rifle firing full power 5.56mmx45mm rounds.
Again - the local police are on public record as the incident commander making that ‘mistake’, they are on public record as not going in on orders, they are on public record as stopping parents from going in unless the parent was LEO (statements of an off-duty Border Patrol agent who got his kid out using his badge but was then barred from returning or assisting.)
All of this is public record. None of this is speculation. Most of it is from police statements.
I got you. Sure why were they not allowing parents to go into a hostile building?
That’s my question
For not letting the parents into a hostile building?
That makes no sense to me parents shouldn’t go into a building where there’s a active shooting situation going on.