Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said he would resign if his troopers had “any culpability” in the flawed police response to the Uvalde school shooting in May.
McCraw made the remark after being confronted by a CNN reporter in Brownsville, where he was attending a legislative hearing. The impromptu interview featured McCraw’s first extensive public remarks about the shooting at Robb Elementary School since June, when he testified for hours at a Texas Senate hearing in Austin and largely blamed local police for the botched response.
After initially being driven back by gunfire from the shooter, police waited more than an hour to reengage, contrary to active-shooter training. Of the nearly 400 officers who responded, 91 were from the state police. A team of U.S. Border Patrol agents and local officers, which did not include any state troopers, ultimately entered the classroom containing the shooter and killed him.
