The Justice Department has announced the team that will officially review the actions of the Uvalde Police Department during the massacre that left nearly two dozen people dead at an elementary school.
Speculation about the officers’ actions that day has swirled for weeks, with official explanations from local authorities shifting and contradicting each other on several occaisions. Given that the siege finally ended when a strike team of federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security’s Border Patrol agency arrived, many are questioning why Uvalde police did not act sooner themselves to stop the carnage.
