Uvalde school police chief “decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” Texas DPS director says

Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw testifies on June 21, 2022, before a Texas Senate committee investigating the shooting in Uvalde last month. (Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune)

Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw told a state Senate committee Tuesday that the law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting was an “abject failure” and police could have stopped the shooter at Robb Elementary School three minutes after arriving were it not for the indecisiveness of the on-scene commander, who “decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.”

[DPS Director Steve McCraw testifies before Texas Senate committee on Uvalde shooting]