Following the ongoing criticism Texas officers have faced in their handling of the Robb Elementary School shooting on Tuesday (May 24), Steven McCraw, director of Texas Department of Public Safety, has taken accountability for the officers’ actions (or lack thereof). In a report from Axios, McCraw acknowledged during a Friday press hearing that officers made “the wrong decision”. Officers assumed that no children were at risk in the classroom, where the shooter, Salvador Ramos, was barricaded in.
Police Admit Mistake
“From the benefit of hindsight, where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision,” McCraw said. “It was the wrong decision, period.” Sadly enough police now admit the major mistake they made.
McCraw had previously said that law enforcement had responded in a timely manner to the shooting, telling the Associated Press that “[Law enforcement] did engage immediately. They did contain [the shooter] in the classroom.”
Since the incident occurred, videos of parents begging police officers to enter the school as the shooting was taking place have surfaced on social media. This is almost unbelievable
“These cops are right here. Bro, there’s a [expletive] shooting at the school and these [expletive] cops are telling everybody to leave, dude, while everybody’s here trying to pick up their [expletive] kids,” the man filming in the video below can be heard saying.
According to a separate report from The Wall Street Journal, some parents were even handcuffed and tased as they tried to get officers to go into the school. Some officers have even admitted to entering the school only to secure their own children. This is very unfortunate however you look at it.
Let’s hope and pray that this is the last of any of these types of incidents. We need to be able to send our children to safe places to learn and socialize with each other. Sadly enough, things like this seem to only take place so frequently in America. The question is, Why? Only God knows!
