Five Texas Department of Public Safety officers’ behaviours during the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, are covered under conduct.
On Tuesday, Col. Steve McGraw, director of the DPS, said to Fox Austin: “Every agency that responded that day participates in this failure, including DPS.”
Before confronting 18-year-old crazed mass shooter Salvador Ramos, hundreds of law enforcement officers waited for almost an hour in the school’s corridors and outdoors.
The incident resulted in the deaths of two instructors and 19 pupils in all.
The agency revealed to the station that the Office of Inspector General is looking into five of its personnel. Two of the five have already been placed on paid leave.
This follows a massive $27 billion class action lawsuit that will be brought against police enforcement in Texas this month in an effort to hold them accountable and provide the families of the victims with justice.
The OIG will determine any sanctions, if any. It’s unclear if the probe has a timetable.
McGraw informed the agency’s officers about active shooter procedures in a letter in July. The DPS has since conducted an internal investigation into the conduct of its personnel on that crucial day.
According to the letter, DPS officers responding to a school shooting will be permitted to avoid any delays in neutralising an assailant.
“When a person shoots a firearm at a school, he remains an active shooter until he is neutralised and is not to be handled as a barricaded subject,” the statement said.
“When a person shoots a weapon at a school, he stays an active shooter until he is eliminated, and is not to be handled as a barricaded suspect,” the colonel further said.
McGraw referred to the reaction to the assault as a “abject failure” in a statement he made in June during his testimony before the Texas Senate Committee’s hearings on the massacre.
The investigation’s announcement coincided with the day when a third-grader in Uvalde decided not to attend class again after the shooting because he did not believe the police would protect him.
Higher fencing won’t deter a shooter, according to Zayon Martinez, who was among those hiding behind a teacher’s desk when Salvador Ramos shot dead his pals.
According to their father, the kid and his elder sister are only willing to participate in school remotely.
Earlier that day, more than three months after the Robb Elementary School massacre that left 21 people dead, students were seen heading back to their classes in the city.
They’re going to have more officers. I went and spoke to my kid and informed him, Adam Martinez, Zayon’s father, said CNN. They will have a taller fence,’ but he was having none of it. “It’s irrelevant. They won’t stand up for us.
Martinez said that his 12-year-old daughter Analiyh and son Zayon had both chosen to study online, but they may change their minds after the first semester.
Adam added, “I spoke to my son and daughter, and they indicated they were concerned they wouldn’t be protected if it occurred again.”
According to him, just two of the eight schools have fences surrounding them so far, and not all security measures have been put in place.
Adam told CNN that there is no fence at the junior high where his daughter will go. When there is no fence, “There is no way that I’m going to persuade her to leave.”
He said, “If you’re terrified, you can’t learn.” to Texas Public Radio. “It’s going to be difficult to engage with other kids when you’re in a dangerous atmosphere because you’re always glancing around to make sure nothing occurred,” the author says.
For other parents, though, such as single mother Angeli Gomez, who told Texas Public Radio: “I can’t stay home, I have to work,” remote learning is not an option.
Who will then monitor our children, you ask?
On Tuesday, work on the Uvalde School District’s eight schools’ fence, which is now only in place at two of them, proceeded.
Uziyah Garcia, the victim, was being raised by his uncle, Brett Cross, who also said that his two 15-year-old daughters had made the decision to go back to school in person.
The shooter purchased the pistol used in the attack.
He said that while they are now at an age when they can make their own choices with the assistance of their parents, “my small ones (ages 7 and 10), we’re not certain yet.”
“I don’t think we’ve done everything to safeguard our kids,” you say.
After a study revealed that officers were silent for more than an hour while Salvador Ramos, 18, barricaded himself inside a classroom and began fire, school authorities worked all summer to enhance safety procedures at the school and even replaced its troubled police head.
No pupils will be going back to Robb Elementary School, the scene of the bloodiest school shooting in over a decade, as part of an effort to increase safety measures.
Instead, according to CNN, students who attended Robb Elementary as first-graders last year will begin second grade at Dalton Elementary, while those who attended Robb for second and third grade last year will enrol in the new Uvalde Elementary, which is housed in a nearby school district.
A total of 33 Texas Department of Public Safety officers have been hired by the district to patrol the schools; none of them are among the scores of people who failed to react to the incident in a timely manner.
A new superintendent is being sought, as well as 500 additional security cameras, 10 extra police officers have been recruited to guard the school, and Pete Arredondo, the troubled police chief, has been sacked.
They are also expanding the district’s emotional support services for children, adding comfort dogs to every campus during the first few weeks of the school year, extra school counsellors, and training for all staff members in trauma-informed care.
Those who are still uneasy might enrol in remote learning utilising the school district’s supplied tablets.
The enrolment of elementary-aged children at the nearby Catholic school has increased by double since 30 Robb Elementary School kids obtained scholarships to the private institution, but some have now made the decision to move there.
A massive $27 billion class action lawsuit is about to be filed on behalf of the families of the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers.
Charles Bonner, a civil rights lawyer, said on Sunday that the class-action lawsuit would target both law enforcement and the maker of the shooting’s rifle.
According to Bonner of Bonner & Bonner Law, “What we intend to do to help serve this community is to file a $27 billion civil rights lawsuit under our United States Constitution, one-of-a-kind in the entire world.”
Bonner has made it clear that he plans to file a lawsuit against anyone who is liable for what occurred on May 24 inside Robb Elementary.
The school police, Arredondo, the city police, the sheriffs, the Texas Rangers, the DPS, and the Border Patrol are all available, according to Bonner.
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