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‘Chaos’: How 400 police failed to stop Texas school shooting

Uvalde, Texas | Almost 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, but “egregiously poor decision-making” resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman who took 21 lives was finally confronted and killed, according to a damning report released on Sunday (Monday AEST).

The nearly 80-page investigative report was the first to criticise both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities in the South Texas town for the bewildering inaction by heavily armed officers as a gunman fired inside a fourth grade classroom at Robb Elementary School on May 24.

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