Texas Massacre: Chief Officer Unaware of Student Calls to Police

THE policeman, who was in charge of the business during it massacre at Uvalde Elementary School in the Texas, unaware of desperate calls made to police by some of the children who were trapped in the building, a Texas senator said today.

The calls received by the Uvalde police “were not transferred to the chief at the scene, Officer (Pete) Arendo, “the commander of the police department of the school district to which the elementary school belongs, said Democratic Sen. Roland Gutierrez, speaking to reporters.

This is a error of systemicGuttierez, chairman of the Texas Senate, added does not know who was informed of these calls.

The actions of the police are at the center of the criticism after the massacre that took place on May 24 at Rob Elementary School. Nineteen children and two teachers fell dead from the bullets of 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, in one of the bloodiest incidents at a school in the US.

The Texas Public Safety Service (DPS) revealed last week that 19 police officers from various law enforcement agencies were in the hallway outside a room where the perpetrator of the massacre had invaded. for 45 minutes before finally entering it and killing him.

In total, according to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, the police took about an hour to intervene.

And this despite the fact that many students and teachers who were in rooms through which the perpetrator passed they called the police. Among them and a child who got on the phone saying, “Please, send the police now.”

Last week, DPS director Steven McGraw stated that the police did not intervene faster because they believed that “there were probably no more survivors” without explaining who had been informed of the calls made to the police from inside the school.

“We need to know what the law enforcement forces did” and what procedures were followed or not, Gutierrez stressed. “We all failed. “Many mistakes have been made,” concluded the senator who is in favor of the adoption a stricter framework for gun ownership.

Source: News Beast

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