...
Growing criticism of police after school shooting in Texas: Police waited an hour before shooting the perpetrator | Abroad | DR Police in Uvalde change explanation. The perpetrator probably went into the school unhindered. The reality is different. Last night's Danish time, Victor Escalon, spokesman for Texas' Department of Public Security, unveiled a new version of the process that is in direct conflict with the police's first statements, reports. Now the message from the police is that stood outside the school for 12 minutes before he - unhindered - entered the school and began his massacre. entrenched himself in a classroom, where he killed 19 children and two teachers. "Several" officers had gathered outside the classroom, police say, but still give k there about an hour before was shot and killed by the police.- At 11-11: 15 the perpetrator sends several private messages in which he tells that he has shot his grandmother and intends to commit a shooting at an elementary school.- 11:28 he drives wrong in his car near Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.- 11:30 the police receive reports of a man with a firearm. The perpetrator opens fire on two people at a funeral home across the street. He forces a fence and shoots at the school.- 11:40 the perpetrator enters the school through a back door that is immediately unlocked.- 11:43 the school goes into lockdown mode due to shooting.- 11:44 police officers arrive and try to enter the school, but withdraws and seeks cover as the perpetrator opens fire. Then he enters a classroom for a 4th grader with mainly children aged nine to ten, who become his victims.- 12:00 videos show children being evacuated from school.- 12:23 the police in Uvalde say that the crime scene continues is "active", but asks parents to pick up their children from a nearby culture house.- 12:45 members of the border police special force shoot the 18-year-old perpetrator.Sources: BBC, Ritzau, the police in UvaldeAccording to the police, officers arrived at the school four minutes after , entered the school - probably through an unlocked side door, although school district rules require that all classroom entrances and doors be locked as one. employees from the building while waiting for the special task force of the border police to arrive.After about an hour, officers from the special forces shot and killed .Javier Cazares is one of the critics of the police hand ering. His 10-year-old daughter, Jacklyn, is among the victims.- They asked us to step away and let them do their work. But their job was to go in there and save lives, not just wait, he says.- God knows how long my daughter and the others sat and waited, he says.The long wait is immediately contrary to several US authorities, what concerning school shootings. Here, there is usually a policy of confronting the shooter in schools immediately to prevent further bloodshed, Ritzau points out. ', Greg Abbott, who praised "the quick from brave local officers", writes .And according to the media, there is still doubt about the timeline after yesterday, where Victor Escalon said that there was a need to correct several previous announcements. goes the course again and stated that it was a "complex situation". has taken to Uvalde as those in charge of the police can not give clear answers, says, pointing out that the police have changed the explanation of whether was confronted before he committed his mass akre.Lillian Gjerulf Kretz is DR's correspondent in Washington D.C. and covers American conditions in all parts of the USA.- There is now a picture of a completely horrible hour - as long as it was inside the school, says Lillian Gjerulf Kretz, who says that there is a growing demand to make a thorough investigation of the course.- For almost an hour, terrified parents stood and could hear that the police, who were now massively present, were shot and begged to move in, points out.- It is reported that several parents were physically detained - and one was handcuffed - when they desperately tried to run into the school after their children, she says.- And several witnesses say that the strong officers did not move in within minutes, as initially said. The police were shouted at, 'give us your vests and weapons and we will enter'.