Dallas ISD police chief on Wilmer-Hutchins shooting: 'We could have prevented this'

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Dallas ISD's police chief says protocols were not followed, resulting in a gun getting inside the Wilmer-Hutchins High School campus.

Dallas ISD school staff are going through a retraining process after a student brought a gun to Wilmer-Hutchins High and shot another student in the leg.The district's police chief says protocols were not followed, resulting in the gun getting inside the campus."Our protocols were not strictly followed as they should have been. We could have prevented this," said DISD Police Chief Albert Martinez.Chief Martinez is taking full responsibility for the on-campus shooting on April 12.

We are not following our protocols and processes and our training," said Martinez. "Our monitors and staff members are dealing with a long line of students, school is about to start and so there’s some pressures there, and we want them to understand that safety, that protocol, that taking the time to do what’s right, ensures everybody will be safe.""In this instance, our metal detector was working fine. Our policy, our protocols were not being followed as they should’ve been.

 

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