Republican Greg Abbott admitted he was misinformed about some information he received from security officials when he appeared before the media on Wednesday
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< /p>The governor of Texas asked to guarantee a transparent investigation into the Uvalde massacre
The governor of Texas (USA), Republican Greg Abbott, said this Friday that it is necessary to guarantee “a thorough investigation” of the police response to the shooting three days ago at a state school, where 19 children and two teachers died.
“I hope that as we speak and by the minute, law enforcement earns the trust of the public by doing exactly what they are supposed to do do,” Abbott said.
Therefore, the governor added, “From now on, we must ensure that what happened is thoroughly investigated and explained to you, the public and the victims of the crime”.
The The actions of the police in Uvalde are being the subject of numerous and angry criticisms by families and the general public on social networks and the media, considering that the security forces could have acted more quickly .
The actions of the police in Uvalde are being the object of numerous and angry criticisms from the families and the general public
In fact, The police admitted this Friday that it was a mistake not to enter the classroom where the school attacker was before and by force, which the agents took around an hour to access.
Abbot said in his press conference this Friday that he was “misinformed” about some information he received from security officials when he appeared before the media on Wednesday, the day after the shooting .
“I am furious about what happened, I was on this very stage two days ago, and I was giving the public information that I had been told in a room a few yards behind where we are now,” he recalled
He specified that he took notes of the details that happened to him in that room in chronological order about what happened on the day of the shooting.
“Then I left here on this podium and I told the public what happened,” he stressed, “it was a recitation of what the people in that room had told me.”
Abbott indicated that, “as everyone knows”, the information he offered has been partially inaccurate.
At a press conference, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Steven McCraw, recognized that not tearing down the door and wait for the concierge to arrive with the key was a “wrong decision” and he blamed it on the highest police officer who was at the school at the time.
The 21 fatalities of the shooting were in the same classroom, and when the police finally gained access, they also found children alive in it. < b>From the first call to 911 until the suspect was killed, the police took 1 hour and twenty minutes.
“No I’m defending nothing, but if you go back in time, there were hundreds of shots fired in four minutes in those two classrooms,” Mcraw said.
(With information from EFE)