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'It was clearly the wrong decision': Top Texas cop breaks down as he reveals 19 officers stood outside classroom where gunman trapped victims doing NOTHING because Uvalde police chief thought everyone was dead despite kids continuing to call 911
Nineteencops stood outside the classroom where the gunman was for over an hour while kids were outside
They thought that everyone inside was dead - despite ongoing 911 calls from kids inside begging for help
The shooter fired his last shots at 12.21 and it's unclear if those shots were at the kids or at the door
'Clearly in hindsight, it was the wrong decision,' Texas Dept. of Safety Steven McCraw said on Friday
The 911 calls from inside the classrooms lasted from continued until 12.50pm, when police killed the gunman
The kids who were alive and trapped phoned for help seven times unaware that police were outside
Police will not say how many people were rescued and how many were shot in the time that lapsed
The gunman fired 100 shots when he first arrived at the school then another 16 shots four minutes later"
Kabuki Theater:
"Texas' Director of Public Safety broke down in tears as he admitted 19 cops stood outside the classroom where the gunman in Tuesday's shooting had his victims trapped and did nothing because they thought everyone inside was dead, despite ongoing 911 calls from inside from children begging for help.
Col. Steven McCraw made the admission at a press conference on Friday where he said it was 'the wrong decision' and came as the result of the Chief of the Uvalde School District Police Department Pete Arredondo mistakenly believing all of the kids in the classroom had already been killed.
Police say they thought that every shot the gunman fired after that was aimed at the door and designed to keep them at bay."
"'The incident commander thought at that time there was no more children at risk. Obviously there were children that were at risk,' he said.
It remains unconfirmed how many children died while those 19 cops stood outside the classroom door. McCraw also revealed at the press conference;
The gunman fired more than 100 rounds after at 11.33am within seconds of walking into the school
He had purchased 1,000 rounds of ammo in total and been talking about buying guns for months
In March, he asked his sister to help him buy a gun and she 'flatly refused' but it's unclear if he was reported
In May, he spoke about school shootings with friends on Instagram and on May 14 he wrote: '10 more days, you'll see'
The shooter's final shots were fired at 12.21pm and it's unclear if those were at kids or at the door
Children who were trapped inside the classroom made seven 911 calls in the hour that they were trapped, begging for help
There was no resource officer at the scene but one arrived within seconds of hearing the first 911 call. He however didn't see the gunman hiding between cars in the parking lot and drove right past him
The gunman was able to get into the school because a teacher had propped open a door
Ramos entered the classroom and locked the door at 11.34am. In the first few minutes, he fired more than 100 shots inside classrooms 111 and 112.
He carried on shooting 'sporadically' until 12.21pm, and it wasn't until 12.50pm that police eventually gained access to the classrooms with a key from the janitor.
'With the benefit of hindsight, from where I am sitting now - of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. There is no excuse,' McCraw said."
Sauce/moar: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10861681/Texas-cops-reveal-Uvalde-police-no-effort-enter-shooting-classroom.html