Robb Elementary School, site of massacre, will be razed, Uvalde mayor says

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Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers last month will be demolished, the city's mayor says.

Robb Elementary will not be the first school to be razed in the wake of a major tragedy.

"I’m very frustrated with the way they’re handling it. Very frustrated because, like I said, we’re not getting any information," he said."The gloves are off," he said."As we know it, we will share it." "We are not going to hold back anymore," he said."We kept quiet at the request because we thought we were doing a formal investigation and doing the right thing."

"What matters to Uvalde is that these broken-hearted families and this grieving community get a full investigation and accurate report of what happened that day," he said.On Tuesday, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said the law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting was an"abject failure.

“The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” he said.

 

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Also get rid of the mayor, the police chief, AND the entire police department!

How can republicans and SCOTUS claim they are right to life yet do EVERYTHING they can in not preserving it? HouseGOP SenateGOP SCOTUS sounds more like hypocritical B.S. Or are they more concerned with it happening but could give a damn after?

Mayor Don McLaughlin is begging for a government handout to cover the demolition costs. How about he either pulls himself up by the bootstraps or begs Abbott to pay the costs?

Why is it peaceful protesting when other sources are recording rioting?

Better yet, re-purpose it. Turn it into the new Uvalde police headquarters and let it remind the chicken crap Nancy's what their job is supposed to be.

...to destroy evidence?

Secorcoran1227 I’m not sure how I feel about that.

The physical building can be made to disappear, but the horror of the day and the culpability of people intrusted to protect the children will never go away.

All of a sudden the victims feelings are of paramount concern? After they left them all in there for an hour with a murdering maniac armed to the teeth? I'm highly skeptical of their motives to reduce the building to rubble.

So ridiculous.

Hundreds of kids and staff were terrorized in that building by the sound of shots and being forced into hiding. Their friends died. They are all forever changed. How could anyone expect them to walk back in there where this happened.

Fucking stupid. Save the money and use it on heightened security and trained officers.

They didn’t demolish Columbine, they remodeled it and moved the library.

Why? To try and forget the shameful and disgusting acts of coward first responders who in reality were no responders?

Must be door locks are as hard to get as baby formula.

they should build a memorial park in memory of the children and the 2 teachers.

Money matters!

What about that useless police dept?!

Are they going to send the coward cops in first?

I guess that's ONE way to get a bond issue passed.

They should tear down the Police Dept. Those teachers sacrificed their lives for those kids. The cops didn't. Think about that the next time you have to decide on what your tax dollars should fund and what to demolish. UvaldePoliceCowards UvaldeCoverUp

Hopefully an independent agency has taken pics/videos and documented any evidence needed in the future.

They should demolish the Uvalde Police Department while they're at it.

Remake it into a community center, dedicated to the teachers and students. That would be a much better use for it and a place of service. Build a new school nearby.

Angry_Staffer How do you struggle to pay teachers a living wage, and then snap your fingers and rebuild a large school from scratch?

Why are they demolishing a functioning building full of people doing their jobs instead of the Uvalde police station? Why do they need “people” like that freeloading off their taxes? Handing out traffic tickets? What are they for?

Until so called white people acknowledge that they are the problem concerning GUNS and these random shootings that has plagued this nation since the first GUNS was brought to this country by them. No one will be safe anywhere in America.

Who’s paying for new school? NRA? That community is poor, they’ll raise taxes on them to cover the bloodshed. Disgusting.

RaeMargaret61 That won’t fix the problem.

Angry_Staffer Along with the police station?

Weird. Kind of like Sandy Hook? I'm sure there's no correlation or evidence being destroyed in either case. The people in this country need to wake up and see the false flag events our government is committing.

Sounds very 'American' we cant fix it so lets sweep it under the rug...

Leave it up as a reminder that this nonsense of getting the guns into the hands of the good guys is just that! Nonsense.

Demolish that useless police force and use the extra funds for the school and better community security.

Angry_Staffer This will be a traumatic event for all the children & teachers who survived, but it must be done.

Angry_Staffer So, they will demolish a school because of this GunViolence, but they won't work on GunControlNow ?

The pigs should have to pay for it out of their own money. Repossess their houses and life savings.

Smart move to destroy evidence

Hopefully they will build a new school to replace it but this is Texas...

Is destroying the school helping to remember those children? Erase the memory?

When politicians fail to implement policies that would substantively transform society, they resort to performative politics to distract people from the incompetence of government and its unwillingness or inability to affect tangible change in their daily existence.

Make the cops who just stood out classroom doing nothing for 30 mins pay for the cost of it. They just stoop outside like cowards and let more get killed.

Wow, really?! Odd….I mean I get not wanting to be reminded of the incident, but this is just extreme, and suspicious!!!

Should be demolished with the coward cowboys inside of it.

Auschwitz is still standing and is now a tourist destination. Stop by the gift shop for a souvenir T-shirt or coffee mug....😨

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