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A spokesman for Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, on Sunday called the police department, which responded to a mass shooting at a school last week in Uwalde, Texas, saying it was clear “protocols were not followed” after revealing officers were waiting outside the classroom containing the shooter and children for more than an hour until Border Patrol agents broke down the door and killed him.
Speaking at CNN’s State of the Union, Crenshaw said it was “hard not to see someone not fired” for the slow response from Rob Elementary School on Tuesday, when 19 children and two teachers were fatally shot by 18-year-old Salvador Rolando Ramos.
“I know better than most that I don’t necessarily judge the person who goes through the breakthrough and is in the arena at the moment, but it seems clear that the protocols were not followed,” he said.
US Republican Dan Crenshaw (lev), a Republican from Texas, spoke with other Republicans about the withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan, criticizing the actions of US President Joe Biden during a press conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, August 31 2021 (SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)
Stephen McCrow, head of Texas’s public safety department, said Friday that the Uwalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief has called for no classroom staff because he believes Ramos has barricaded himself and is no longer threat to children. As police followed Ramos into the building within two minutes of the attack, it was another 47 minutes before a border patrol tactical team broke through the door, McCrow said.
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“Of course, that wasn’t the right decision,” McCrow said. “It was the wrong decision.”
McCrow said teachers and children repeatedly called 911 for help while Ramos carried out the attack. He did not call police chief Peter Aredondo by name.
Memories adorn an impromptu memorial to the victims of the shooting in front of Rob Elementary School in Uwalde, Texas, on May 28, 2022.
Crenshaw agreed that some “very, very bad calls” had been made.
“This is not a training problem,” Crenshaw said Sunday. “We have a very clear doctrine for training on this issue. The situation changes for a barricaded shooter if there are innocent people inside. You have to let go of your sense of self-preservation and go through that door. I mean, the training clearly states that you can be shot, but the person behind you can get in and save innocent people. You have to put them in front of you. This does not seem to have happened here.
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“So what does accountability look like?” He continued. “Well, let’s let the investigation unfold, but it’s hard not to see how someone isn’t fired for this, for these very, very bad calls. And the fact that it took the border patrol an hour later to come in and actually do the work for the police, I think, is quite inconvenient for many local police officers. So we will see how this develops, but there must be responsibility. “
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