The law enforcement response to the Uvalde mass shooting was an “abject failure” where the police chief “put the lives of officers above the lives of children”, an official said at the first Texas Senate public hearing about the massacre.
Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS), gave damning testimony on Tuesday morning as officials piece together the events surrounding the slaughter of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School last month.
