Police officers who responded to the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre didn’t try to open a door to classrooms even as they had access to a “crowbar-like tool” to do so when the shooter was inside, a source told the San Antonio Express-News. Classroom doors were “designed to lock automatically,” however, the source said video shows the gunman opened a door to enter a classroom connected to another classroom. The “crowbar-like tool” could have opened the door and Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo didn’t try keys on the door to the classroom where the shooter was inside, the source said. He claimed agencies who allowed officers to wait “committed negligence” if the door could have been pried open or unlocked. The police response to the school massacre is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, the Texas Legislature and Texas Rangers.

Source: Huffington Post June 19, 2022 06:23 UTC