Uvalde school shooting: Police response to massacre was "a failure," DOJ report finds | FULL

Police officials who responded to the deadly 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, “demonstrated no urgency” in setting up a command post and failed to treat the killings as an active shooter situation, according to a U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday that identifies “cascading failures” in law enforcement’s handling of one of the deadliest massacres at a school in American history.

"Law enforcement agencies have a responsibility to ensure that their leaders and all their officers are trained to focus on rapid response. Trained that the first officers on the scene must focus on eliminating the threat and protecting the victims most in danger," U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

The Justice Department report, the most comprehensive federal accounting of the haphazard police response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School, identifies a vast array of problems from failed communication and leadership to inadequate technology and training that federal officials say contributed to the crisis lasting far longer than it should have, even as terrified students inside the classrooms called 911 and agonized parents begged officers to go in.

Garland added the purpose of the report was threefold: to honour the victims and survivors, to provide an "independent" and "accurate" account of law enforcement's response during this tragedy, and to give law enforcement agencies and communities across the country recommendations on how to prepare for possible future incidents.

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