ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receiveEditor’s note: This story contains audio of people calling 911 during a mass shooting incident.A man had crashed his truck into a ditch by Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, and he was rushing toward the school with a gun.
The Texas Tribune and ProPublica have for the first time obtained recordings of more than 20 emergency calls and dozens of hours of conversations between police and dispatchers that lay bare the increasing sense of urgency and desperation conveyed by children and teachers. In chilling, muffled 911 calls, they begged for help from inside the school.
In an interview, her father, Ruben Torres Jr., said he is “disgusted” that police did not quickly intervene. The fact that his daughter had to wait so long to get help is “mind-boggling,” Torres said. The emergency radio system has two 911 lines and three emergency channels. Its frequency is designed for the vast, 15,000-square-mile stretch of scrubby desert terrain, rather than for high-density urban areas where equipment must work inside buildings, said Forrest Anderson, the county’s emergency management coordinator who oversaw the radio system’s implementation two decades ago.
“If a strong unifying command scene was set up quickly, these discrepancies wouldn’t have been necessarily relevant, and there would have been one voice and one command,” Harrison said of the problems with 911 and radio communication., which stated that a capable incident commander would have realized that the radios were “mostly ineffective” and that responders needed other means of communication to transmit key details such as calls from victims inside the classrooms.
At 11:48 a.m., Ruiz, who was standing in the hallway outside of the classroom, told officers that his wife had been shot. Ruiz said his wife had called him and said she was “dying.” Mireles later died in an ambulance. The call lasted a minute and 24 seconds. The child was silent as the dispatcher asked their name and what room they were in.“There is a lot of bodies,” The New York Times, adding that her teacher had been shot but was still alive.
In the hallway, Uvalde County Constable Emmanuel Zamora wrongly suggested that the gunman may have already shot himself.
Heartbreaking. Enraged atvpolice inaction.
VoteBeto
As a non-expert/non-police officer, you know better what could have been done, right? P.S. Ban the damned weapons!
Clearly we don’t spend enough money on the police. Jfc
How this entire damn state isn’t up in arms against our ‘rulers’ is simply beyond me.
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And yet, Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw, who promised to resign if the department failed in its duty, still clings to his office in disgrace.
but McCraw thinks DPS didn’t fail the community Abbott should have had the guts to fire McCraw months ago
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IstayMad63 Police “response” NO! IT WAS Police INACTION. NEGLIGENCE. AND COWARDLINESS. that killed those children.
new zealand massacre was livestreamed. this one was too, with paid viewers. some in charge knew and it's why the delay.
How are any of those 376 still employed?
Yeah, right before Saying “dude I’m too chickenshit even though I have heavy body armor & guns . I’m a coward “
This is heartbreaking.
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Odd that there’s no longer any discussion about the shooter & his high-end rifle & expensive new truck or his grandmother being shot in the face & living. No. It’s only how cowardly the police were & consequences for them. Who subsidized the shooter’s lifestyle? Just curious.
They somehow didn’t hear these children either. They removed the children’s screams from the audio. I wonder if they can hear America’s screams. 🤬😭
Prison for every one of them
The entire force present that day should be fired- at least
Almost all involved are MAGA. And, no, they know nothing about how to save the children, which is their lure marketing to get millions into the cult.
Heartbreaking 💔
propublica The male voice yall are saying is a dispatcher is incorrect. It was another officer.
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