The police commander made the comments while giving testimony during a committee hearing on the deadly school shooting that left two teachers and 19 children dead.
police officers armed with rifles stood and waited in a school hallway for nearly an hourCol. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, called the police response "an abject failure."
Delays in the law enforcement response have been the focus of the federal, state and local investigation of the massacre and its aftermath. The police commander made the comments while giving testimony during a special Texas Senate committee on the deadly school shooting that left. The agenda for the first meeting says members will discuss school safety, police training and social media.
The Texas House has been holding its own investigative committee meetings, targeting the law enforcement response. Those meetings have been held behind closed doors.A State Senator says more than a dozen state troopers were among those waiting in the hallway while the gunman was inside a classroom, shooting students and teachers.Law enforcement officials have provided little or conflicting information since the shooting, sometimes withdrawing statements hours after making them.
Officials also haven’t released records sought under public information laws to media outlets, including The Associated Press, often citing broad exemptions and the ongoing investigation. It has raised concerns about whether such records will be released, even to victims’ families.Burrows has defended the committee interviewing witnesses in private and not revealing their findings so far, saying its members want an accurate account before issuing a report.
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