Veronica Mata says she can’t understand how the police officers who stood in a school hallway for more than an hour while children and teachers were being slaughtered in a classroom could possibly have been doing their jobs in good faith.Veronica Mata, whose daughter was killed in the Ulvalde school shooting attends a U.S. Justice Department press conference in January.
"There were problems all day long with communication and lack of it. The officers had no way of knowing what was being planned, what was being said," Prado said Thursday while delivering the report. He praised some of the officers for showing '"immeasurable strength" and "level-headed thinking" as they faced fire from the shooter and refrained from shooting into a darkened classroom.
A 2022 report by state lawmakers similarly found "egregiously poor decision-making" by law enforcement. Kimberly Rubio, whose daughter Lexi was among 19 children killed in the massacre at Robb Elementary, speaks out at a special city council meeting in Uvalde, Texas, on Thursday after a report cleared local officers of wrongdoing. "I just felt like I needed him to understand that how dare he? Like, how dare he sit there and say that these police officers did nothing wrong?" Mata said.