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{Jeremy Wallace
@JeremySWallace | 18 January 2024}
I can't believe I'm saying this. But, Uvalde was even worse than we've been told.
We knew about the 376 cops on the scene who did not go into the class for 77 mins.
Assoc Attorney Gen Gupta today said the "pain, failures & missteps" did not end when they finally went in.
Because there was no leader, there was no plan to triage victims.
"Without appropriate precautions, victims who had already passed away were taken to the hospital in ambulances while children with bullet wounds were put on school buses without any medical attention," she said.
"In the commotion, one adult victim was placed on a walkway - on the ground - outside to be attended to," Gupta said. "She died there."
And the reunification and notification process was also chaotic. Gupta said families received unclear and often conflicting information.
"Hours after the shooting an official incorrectly told families, waiting for their children at the civic center, that an additional bus of survivors was coming. It did not," Gupta said.
Watch Gupta's full statement here. But be warned, this is heartbreaking stuff. Those Uvalde families deserved so much better. So much.
[Gupta's statement begins @ 16:10 in the following video. - OB]
U.S. AG Merrick Garland, others speak about DOJ report on Uvalde school shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd6rsPMox2A
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KVUE | 18 January 2024}
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and others spoke about the report the Justice Department released on its findings surrounding the shooting response at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.