Two officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety who were at the scene of the Uvalde school massacre have been suspended with pay while an investigation takes place into their actions that day, the department said.
DPS has asked for an independent review of the actions of some of its officers during the Robb Elementary School shooting in which 19 students and two teachers died, according to a spokesperson. The response by law enforcement to the May 24 massacre has come under intense public scrutiny -- and enraged families in Uvalde -- notably the fact that officers from several agencies waited for more than an hour before a team shot and killed the teenaged gunman in a classroom.
"In public testimony before the Senate Committee to Protect Texas, I stated that the law enforcement response to the active shooter attack at Robb Elementary School was an abject failure," McCraw said in July in a letter to"fellow employees" that was released Tuesday."Every agency that responded that day shares in this failure, including DPS."In the same email, McCraw announced what he called an"addition" to the DPS shooting response policy.
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