Law enforcement's response to the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting was "an abject failure and antithetical to everything we’ve learned over the last two decades since the Columbine massacre," Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said at a state Senate hearing Tuesday.
Driving the news: Nineteen officers were stationed in the hallway outside when the first 911 call was made from inside one of the classrooms about 12:03pm that day, but law enforcement did not breach the classrooms until 12:51pm.
