DOJ's Uvalde report finds "unimaginable failure" in school shooting response. Here are the key takeaways
CBSN
A federal report investigating the police response to the May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, found multiple failures by officers that allowed the attack to continue even as police were at the school.
The report, conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing, known as the COPS Office, looked at thousands of pieces of data and documentation and relied on more than 260 interviews, including with law enforcement and school personnel, family members of victims, and witnesses and survivors from the massacre. The team investigating visited Uvalde nine times, spending 54 days on the ground in the small community.
In a press conference after the release of the report, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said the law enforcement response was an "unimaginable failure," and "a lack of action by adults failed to protect children and their teachers."
