Amid growing scrutiny over the police response to the massacre at Robb Elementary School in early June, city officials in Uvalde tried to persuade state leaders to buy into the narrative of local cops showing “zero hesitation” and behaving like ” heroes,” according to the San Antonio Express News. Remarks presented to Colonel Stephen McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, and District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busby at a June 2 meeting reportedly included the assertion that “every minute [of the police response] was used to save the lives of children and teachers. Citing the school’s police chief, Pete Arredondo, and several Uvalde Police Department officers, the proposed narrative also says, “There was no hesitation on the part of these officers, they went straight for the shooting,” according to the Express-News.
Busby told the newspaper that she “objected” to the proposed remarks because investigators did not yet know whether it was a “correct assessment.” Surveillance footage from inside the school, leaked last week, showed dozens of heavily armed law enforcement officers standing in a hallway as the shooter was barricaded with young children in a classroom. It took more than an hour before the gunman was finally shot dead by a Border Patrol agent, and by then 19 children and two teachers were dead.
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