The police took a “bad decision” by not entering quickly in the school of Uvalde to put an end to the slaughter, recognized Friday May 27 a senior Texan official.
“Looking back now, of course it wasn’t the right decision. It was the wrong decision, period”said Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, during a tense press conference. “If I thought it could help, I would apologize”he said.
Officers who responded to the shooting at the elementary school waited about an hour before entering the classroom where the shooter had locked himself because an on-scene commander mistakenly thought no lives were n ‘was in danger despite multiple calls from the children inside to the 911 emergency number, traces the Wall Street Journal. “At the end of the dayrecalls the daily life, 19 children and two teachers were found dead.”
This commander present at the Robb primary school had then felt that he was facing a situation of “barricaded suspect” and not of “active shooter”note USA Today.
“Please come… “
This mea culpa from the Texas police took place when a first chilling testimony from a surviving student emerged on Friday. Asked by CNN, this 11-year-old child, Miah Cerrillo says she managed to pick up the phone of her deceased teacher and dial 911 to call for help. She said she told emergency services: “Please come…we’re in trouble.”
“Miah said she was afraid the shooter would come back to her classroom to kill her and a few other surviving friends. So she dipped her hands in the blood of a classmate – who was lying next to her, already dead – then smeared herself in blood to play dead.”reports the news channel.
Trump justifies arming citizens in the face of “evil”
Chance of the calendar, the first American arms lobby, the National Rifle Association (NRA), launched its annual convention on Friday in Houston, a few hours drive from Uvalde. In front of the building where the event was held, demonstrators held up signs, with messages like “How many more children? ” or “Protect the children, not the weapons”, can we see on the site of the New York Times.
Inside, former US President Donald Trump spoke, “vocally defending the right to firearms”reports the Washington Post. The Republican opposed any tougher gun laws “and argued that if the United States could spend $40 billion in Ukraine, it could make schools safer”. He said the United States needed to change its approach to mental health, and called for schools to have “a single point of entry.”
In advocating for gun rights – and against tougher restrictions – he said that “the existence of evil in our world is no reason to disarm law-abiding citizens – the existence of evil is one of the very best reasons to arm law-abiding citizens”.