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Uvalde shootings: police response an ‘abject failure’, Texas safety chief says

Steve McCraw condemns local police chief Pedro Arredondo for ‘deciding to place the lives of officers over the lives of children’

The Texas public safety chief issued a blistering appraisal on Tuesday of the police response to the Uvalde shootings, calling it “an abject failure and antithetical to everything” known about how to respond to such crises.

Steve McCraw was speaking to a panel of state senators investigating the attack last month at Robb elementary school by an intruder who killed 19 students and two teachers.

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