Uvalde shooting: Texas official labels police response ‘abject failure’
25 June 2022 |
5:42 am
Texas official Steven McCraw said that officers searched for a key that was not needed and waited an hour outside classrooms. Relatives of schoolchildren and staff are angry over how police responded to the shooting.
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