The majority-Latino community of Uvalde, Texas, would have been better off if police officers didn't show up at the school that day, according to an attorney representing more than a dozen families.
According to Mark Di Carlo, the people of Uvalde would have been better off if there was no police. They were barricaded and beaten so that they wouldn't go in. Law enforcement agencies that use tax money prevent us from saving our own children.
More than a month and a half after the May 24 shooting in Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old shooter, school and city officials have not updated the public on the investigation. School officials have retained lawyers and are refusing to share physical evidence or allow outside agencies to inspect the school until law enforcement completes their own investigation, according to letters he has received from other attorneys.
The lawmaker who represents Uvalde said on Tuesday that he would release the video on Sunday. It would be made available to the public.
The release of the video has drawn skepticism and ire from community members.
The chairman of a special Texas House panel investigating the school shooting said Monday that local law enforcement and the Uvalde mayor had reached a deal to release a portion of the video footage. The Texas Department of Public Safety denied his request because they didn't have permission from the Uvalde's district attorney.
It's been a cover-up since the beginning, according to Di Carlo. Everything is being held back
The Austin American-Statesman published an exclusive 77-minute video recording from a responding officer's body camera.
The video only shows the physical evidence of police officers waiting idly as a man killed innocent children. The video shows a member of law enforcement stopping to get hand sanitizer in the school to justify their anger.
Di Carlo said that he was stopped by a police officer as he tried to get a closer look at the empty school.
He said, "It's rather egregious that they're spending all this money and effort to protect an empty school when they had an opportunity and time to go into the school and safeguard the children, and maybe save some lives, and they neglected to do so."
Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee had to answer for the investigation's rocky start and communication. Busbee told Yahoo News that she has been helping the families of the victims since the beginning of the investigation.
She set up a family assistance center at the fairplex to serve as a one stop shop for counseling services and to immediately help families in need after the shooting. Eight days after the massacre, that ended. She opened the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center using a $5 million grant from Gov. Abbott and plans to keep it open for many years.
The Uvalde Together Resiliency Center will be in existence for at least 4-5 years to provide counseling services to the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde County.
Critics don't think Busbee is doing enough to help the families of the victims. The letter was shared with Yahoo News and was signed by the Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin and the Texas state senator.
The Uvalde community is strong but needs our help to heal. The letter said that help had not come. The failure of the District Attorney and the Governor to help these families in need has been brought to my attention since her appointment. My people have told me that they need help with their finances. Little help has been given.
Busbee says she can't give the grant money to victims.
She said in an email that she couldn't give money from the grant to families. To imply that I am able to give money to families directly from the grant shows a lack of understanding.
Di Carlo questioned the need for the results of the inquiry, which he said could take upwards of two years, because there was no clear end to the investigation. The public would rather see the video and autopsy evidence themselves.
He said that the results of the investigations are questionable. We need the videos and the autopsies.
He said that they needed the facts. They do not need their opinions.
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The cover photo was taken by Eric Thayer.
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