An officer had the Uvalde killer in his sights before he entered the school but didn't get the order to pull the trigger, report finds



A report found that one Uvalde police officer could have shot the mass murderer before he entered an elementary school but that he didn't get the go ahead order from his supervisor.

The report was just the latest in a series of controversial findings documenting inexplicable mistakes in the police response to the horrific mass shooting.

The Texas State University’s Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training report was a review of the response from the Uvalde Police.

Salvador Rolando Ramos murdered 19 students and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School on May 24.

Ramos had crashed a truck near the school and began shooting at windows. At about that time, an officer with a rifle had Ramos in his gunsights.

"The officer, armed with a rifle, asked his supervisor for permission to shoot the suspect," the report said. "However, the supervisor either did not hear or responded too late. The officer turned to get confirmation from his supervisor and when he turned back to address the suspect, he had entered the west hallway unabated."

The ALERRT report went on to cite the Texas penal code saying officers can use deadly force if it is "immediately necessary to prevent the commission of murder."

While the officer would have been allowed to fire on the suspect at the time, the report said he could have mistakenly believed he needed authorization from a supervisor, or he could have believed the suspect was too far away for an accurate shot.

The assessment found other failings of the police response that may had led to the preventable loss of life.

It found that officers "lost momentum" waiting for more firepower and equipment to arrive at the school while taking more fire. The report said that officers failed to consider other options to breach the room, including going through the sheetrock or through the windows.

The report had a damning conclusion.

"While we do not have definitive information at this point, it is possible that some of the people who died during this event could have been saved," the report said.

Here's more about the new Uvalde report:

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Texas' top cop reveals shocking new details about Uvalde police response: 'An abject failure'



The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety sharply criticized the law enforcement response to the Uvalde mass killing on Tuesday.

Not only was the response described as an "abject failure," but officials revealed shocking new details indicating that more lives could have been saved.

What are the details?

Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw disclosed while speaking to Texas lawmakers that law enforcement entered Robb Elementary School just minutes after the 18-year-old perpetrator, which meant they could have quickly neutralized him, thus saving more lives.

"There is compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary was an abject failure and antithetical to everything we’ve learned over the last two decades since the Columbine massacre," McCraw said.

"Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject," he explained. "The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children."

During his testimony before a Texas state Senate committee, McCraw repeatedly condemned Uvalde school district police Chief Pete Arredondo, the on-scene commander who decided not to immediately engage the gunman.

Arredondo has said he gave that order because officers could not enter the classroom containing the gunman because the door was locked. But McCraw said Tuesday that is not true. In fact, McCraw said the door was never locked, the door did not lock from the inside, and there is no evidence that officers attempted to open the door.

McCraw said the response sent the law enforcement "profession back a decade."

"The officers had weapons; the children had none," McCraw said. "The officers had body armor; the children had none. The officers had training; the subject had none. One hour, 14 minutes and 8 seconds. That’s how long children waited, and the teachers waited, in Room 111 to be rescued.”

In the end, 19 children and two teachers lost their lives.

Multiple departments are investigating the response to Uvalde, including the Justice Department, Texas DPS, and Texas lawmakers.

Arredondo is facing calls to resign, but he remains the police chief of the Uvalde school district police agency.

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Co-host on 'The View' blames 'rise in violent Christian nationalism' for mass shootings

Co-host on 'The View' blames 'rise in violent Christian nationalism' for mass shootings



One of the co-hosts on "The View" tried to pin the blame for mass shootings on "the rise in violent Christian nationalism" on the show Tuesday.

Tara Setmayer, who was previously a Republican, made the comments while discussing the motivations behind the shooter in the horrific elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Sunny Hostin was trying to connect an advertisement from a gun company with a biblical reference to the shooting when Setmayer chimed in.

"It’s part of the Christian nationalism, this rise in violent Christian nationalism, that we have seen, which is also disturbing. They use biblical principles, they pervert them to justify this," Setmayer said.

"Which is another problem, particularly in Texas, this is a growing movement," she continued. "It’s God, guns and Trump. Or God, guns and whatever. It’s a part of their ethos."

Whoopi Goldberg latched onto Setmayer's claim and went further.

"It’s always been this. This was the way it was down south. They used to use the Bible and say, 'You’re not people, God doesn’t see you as people, so we don’t see you as people,'" Goldberg claimed.

She went on to say that AR-15 rifles need to be banned because they are meant to kill people.

"I don’t care NRA. You got to give that gun up. You can have your other ‘yee-haw guns’, whatever you want. The AR-15 is not a hunting gun. It is not a gun where you are going to go out and shoot your dinner," Goldberg said to applause from the audience.

"This gun is meant to kill people," she concluded. "That’s what it’s for. And you can’t have it anymore."

Law enforcement authorities have not identified "Christian nationalism" as part of the motivation for the Uvalde shooter. The killer told co-workers at Wendy's that he planned to save up money to purchase his guns, and before the massacre, sent private messages to an acquaintance online about shooting his grandmother and his plan to attack the school.

Here's the video of Setmayer's comments: