DPS’ misinformation, blame shifting and lack of transparency hid the truth and caused...
Texas Department of Public Safety’s misinformation, blame shifting and lack of transparency hid the truth about the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School, causing more harm to the victims’ families and public’s understanding.SAN ANTONIO — For the wounded children and teachers inside Rooms 111 and 112, help was a few feet away for more than an hour.
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District suspended its police operations and fired two officers, including Chief Pete Arredondo. Uvalde Police Department Lt. Mariano Pargas, the city’s acting chief on May 24 who knew children were alive in the classrooms, resigned before being fired for his inaction. The Texas Department of Public Safety dismissed Sgt. Juan Maldonado, who arrived within minutes of the shooting, suspended two others and is investigating several more.
In this editorial, we examine some of the ways the state failed Uvalde before, during and after the shooting, underscoring the need for wholesale change at the state’s top law enforcement agency.Radios give authorities situational awareness and a way to coordinate responses. “None of those things ever happened,” state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, who represents Uvalde, told us.
On May 24, the years of neglect caught up when radios faltered as hundreds of officers descended on Robb. After the gunman entered Rooms 111 and 112 and fired more than 100 rounds over 2½ minutes, “two separate groups of officers converged on the building,” the House report says. McCraw told state senators, “I’m reluctant to encourage or even think of any situation where you’d want some level of hierarchy where a larger police department gets to come in and take over.”such as the 1991 Luby’s Cafeteria shooting in Killeen, the 2013 explosion in West and the 2018 school shooting in Santa Fe. In Uvalde, most DPS troopers stayed outside.
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