Texas DPS Director Admits Police Were Slow To Act During Uvalde School Shooting
May 27, 2022
95,661
510
718
1.28%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
NBC News Episodes Around May 27, 2022
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
3:41Now PlayingTexas DPS Director Admits Police Were Slow To Act During Uvalde School Shooting
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelTexas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw admitted police on the scene at Robb Elementary School were too slow to act and should have stormed the classroom sooner. Officials say as many as 19 officers were in a hallway by 12:03 pm but the door to the 4th grade classroom, with the shooter inside, was not breached until 47 minutes later using the janitor’s key. The decision to wait was made by the Chief of Police for the school district who believed it was a barricaded subject situation and not an active shooter.
» Subscribe to NBC News
» Watch more NBC video
NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows.
Connect with NBC News Online!
NBC News App
Breaking News Alerts
Visit NBCNews.Com
Find NBC News on Facebook
Follow NBC News on Twitter
#NBCNews #TexasSchoolShooting #Police
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.