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TX Chiefs Tell State Legislators How to Protect Schools
Recommendations include strengthening background checks, raising the minimum age to purchase a military-style rifle, and making it a state crime to complete straw purchases, or the purchasing of a firearm on behalf of an individual knowingly unfit to obtain one.
June 29, 2022
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TX DPS Head Calls Uvalde Police Response an “Abject Failure”
"I don't care if you have on flip-flops and Bermuda shorts, you go in," Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said in testimony at a state Senate hearing.
June 21, 2022
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City of Uvalde Blocking Release of Police Records of School Shooting
The city and its police department are arguing against the release of the requested records, citing the following reasons: the city is being sued, some individuals' criminal history records could include "highly embarrassing information"; some of the information could reveal police "methods, techniques, and strategies for preventing and predicting crime..."
June 20, 2022
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Report: Uvalde Police Never Tried to Open Classroom Door
Surveillance video seems to show that the first time anyone tried to breach the doorway was when they had received the keys, more than an hour after the shooting began.
June 20, 2022
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Uvalde School Chief Says He Was Not Incident Commander, Explains Why He Chose Not to Take His Radios
“I didn’t issue any orders,” Arredondo says. “I called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door.”
June 10, 2022
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Retired Chiefs Among Experts Tapped for DOJ Incident Review of Uvalde Mass Shooting Response
The assessment will examine issues including policies, training, communications, deployment and incident command, tactics, and practices as they relate to preparing for and responding to active shooter events, as well as the post-incident response.
June 9, 2022
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TX Officer Crashes into Tow Truck at Accident Scene
The San Antonio Police Department says the officer responding to the incident was driving at high speeds over a hill when they crashed into the tow truck.
June 9, 2022
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Commander at Uvalde Shooting Reportedly Did Not Know About 911 Calls from Victims
Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D-District 19), whose district includes Uvalde, said the calls with pleas for help from children inside Robb Elementary School as the shooting was taking place on May 24 were not shared with the Uvalde CISD Chief of Police Pete Arredondo.
June 3, 2022
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Supreme Court Opts to Not Review Case Against Dallas Officers, Civil Rights Case Can Proceed Without Qualified Immunity
A federal appeals court ruled in January that "qualified immunity" should not protect the officers from potential liability resulting from the death of Timpa, a man with mental illness who died after being restrained for nearly 14 minutes by the officers.
June 1, 2022
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AP Releases Minute-by-Minute Timeline of Uvalde Attack
The investigation of the massacre is ongoing, but much is already known about the nearly two hours that passed between when authorities say Salvador Ramos shot his grandmother and when police radio traffic indicated that the 18-year-old gunman was dead.
May 30, 2022
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Justice Department to Review Uvalde Active Shooter Response
“The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” Anthony Coley, a spokesperson for the U.S. Justice Department, wrote in a statement Sunday.
May 30, 2022
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Texas DPS Supplies Timeline of Uvalde School Shooting
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw cited video footage and audio evidence to reconstruct the chain of events in Tuesday's active shooter attack on Robb Elementary School.
May 27, 2022
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