![]() ![]() “We get blindsided by a leak,” said Angel Garza, whose 10-year-old daughter, Amerie Jo, was killed. Texas news outlets defend decision to publish shooting video from Uvalde MANDATORY CREDIT Austin American-Statesman/Reuters Austin American-Statesman/Handout via REUTERS. in a still image from school surveillance video obtained by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. Law enforcement officers are told to stay back as shots are heard down the hall during a police entry into the Robb Elementary school classroom in which Salvador Ramos was located in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. They expected to see the footage Sunday, when the Texas House Committee investigating the shooting planned to show it to the families before releasing it to the public. The release of the footage was particularly painful for the victims’ families, including a group of parents and relatives who said they were blindsided Tuesday while in Washington, DC, to speak with elected officials. The video – published by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper Tuesday, in a decision that enraged families of the victims who had yet to see the footage themselves – shows responding officers approaching the door of the classroom within minutes of the shooter entering, yet retreating after the gunman opened fire at them.Īfter more than an hour – with the hallway growing more crowded with officers from different agencies – the doorway of the classroom was breached by law enforcement and the gunman shot and killed. Surveillance video of law enforcement’s response during the Uvalde school massacre gives the clearest account yet of how officers waited outside an elementary classroom as the gunman continued firing, killing 21 students and teachers on May 24. ![]()
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