DOJ finds ‘critical failures’ in Uvalde police response

A Department of Justice (DOJ) report released yesterday on the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, found the families of 19 children and two teachers killed were failed by the haphazard response from authorities who took no action to stop the mass killing.

The report highlighted “critical failures” by law enforcement before, during and after the attack.

In the 600-page report, the department blamed “cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training” for the delayed response that allowed an 18-year-old shooter with a semiautomatic rifle to stay inside Robb Elementary School for 77 minutes.

According to the investigators, the “most significant failure” was the classification of the incident as a barricaded standoff rather than an “active-shooter” scenario, preventing an aggressive action.