May 29, 2022.
The Department of Justice will review law enforcement's response to Tuesday's elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, after local police were criticized for not quickly confronting the shooter.
Law enforcement officers are outside of Robb Elementary School. According to reports, 19 students and 2 adults were killed by a man who was shot by law enforcement.
Anthony Coley, a DOJ spokesman, said in a statement that the review would offer an independent account of law enforcement's actions on the day of the shooting.
The review was requested by Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin and will be carried out by the DOJ's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office.
After-action reviews like the one launched in Uvalde are used by the DOJ to better understand how police respond to incidents.
The Uvalde shooting left 22 people dead, including 19 children. The police response to the shooting has come under scrutiny because it took more than an hour for local police to arrive at the school and the Border Patrol to kill the shooter. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said that local police made a wrong decision by not immediately breaching the classroom where the Uvalde shooter was barricaded. The police waited for tactical teams to arrive and for a school janitor to bring keys to the classroom because they believed the shooter was no longer active. The students were alive in the classroom, according to the calls.
President Joe Biden traveled to Uvalde on Sunday to meet with victims and their families, and attend a memorial for the students and teachers killed in the shooting.
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