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You might as well come down to the station house and join them for tea: It’s a cinch killers will never meet,or even see them

Details of the Uvalde massacre because details have been so fuzzy and contradictory that it seemed best to wait and see what facts, in distinction from rumor and confused impressions, were eventually established. That time seems to have come, and a horrible, awful killing just became even more tragic.

Texas public safety chief says Uvalde police could have stopped Robb Elementary shooting within three minutes

Uvalde classroom door unlocked during shooting as officers waited for keys: 'Abject failure'

Testifying before a special Texas Senate committee hearing, Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told lawmakers that "There is compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary was an abject failure and antithetical to everything we’ve learned over the last two decades since the Columbine massacre."

"Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject," he said. "The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children."

McCraw on Tuesday again placed blamed on Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief, for deciding to put the lives of officers ahead of children’s lives. 

"The officers had weapons, while the children had none. The officers had body armor, the children had none. The officers had training, the subject had none," McCraw said Tuesday. "One hour, 14 minutes and eight seconds. That’s how long the children waited, and the teachers waited, in Room 111 to be rescued. And while they waited, the on-scene commander waited for radio and rifles. And he waited for shields, and he waited for SWAT. Lastly, he waited for a key that was never needed."

The classroom door was unlocked, but officers never even tried to open it, McCraw said.