Leaked video shows Texas law enforcement’s long wait to confront Uvalde school shooter

The Texas Tribune

Leaked video shows Texas law enforcement’s long wait to confront Uvalde school shooter

Elected officials and law enforcement leaders criticized the leak of the video that was supposed to first be shown to victims’ families.

by Uriel J. García and Zach Despart

UVALDE — On the same day that a Texas House committee investigating the Uvalde school shooting announced plans to release footage of law enforcement response to the incident, a video showing police waiting for more than an hour in the school hallway before confronting the shooter was published by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV.

The apparent leak of the video before victims’ families could view it drew ire from local and state leaders.

At a Uvalde City Council meeting Tuesday night, Mayor Don McLaughlin said it was unprofessional to have leaked the video to news outlets. He said families deserved to have viewed the video first before anyone else.

“The way that video was released today was the most chicken thing I’ve ever seen,” the mayor, stopping short of cursing, said during the meeting attended by residents and families affected by the shooting.

State Rep. Dustin Burrows, a Lubbock Republican and the committee’s chair, said earlier Tuesday that he planned to lead a private briefing for victims’ families in Uvalde on Sunday morning, allowing them to see the hallway video from a Robb Elementary School surveillance camera and discuss the committee’s preliminary report. Then the committee would release the video and the report to the public and answer questions from reporters, he said.

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