Families of the children and teachers killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre are renewing demands for criminal charges after a scathing Justice Department report again laid bare numerous failures by police during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history.

“I’m very surprised that no one has ended up in prison,” said Velma Lisa Duran, whose sister Irma Garcia was one of the two teachers killed in the May 24, 2002, shooting. “It’s sort of a slap in the face that all we get is a review … we deserve justice.”

The release of the nearly 600-page report Thursday — roughly 20 months after the shooting — leaves a criminal investigation by Uvalde County prosecutors as one the last unfinished reviews by authorities into the attack at Robb Elementary School. Nineteen students and two teachers were killed inside two fourth-grade classrooms, while highly armed police officers waited in the hallways for more than hour before going inside to confront the gunman.

  • Jaysyn
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    291 year ago

    How will they get around the fact SCotUS has already ruled that the police have no duty to protect you.

    • @stoly
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      They will get it on “didn’t follow departmental procedures” or “didn’t follow normal policing guidelines” and not on “didn’t save my children”.

  • Midnight Wolf
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    May 24, 2022

    How the fuck can someone get that so wrong, and nobody catch it before release? Cmon.

    E: also

    hallways for more than an hour

    • Flying Squid
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      Huh? That is when the shooting happened…

      • @Jesusaurus
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        61 year ago

        They just fixed the typo in the article in the last hour or so after it was posted here

    • Aniki 🌱🌿
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      Bleiberg reported from Dallas. Associated Press writer Zeke Miller in Washington contributed.

  • @inclementimmigrant
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    61 year ago

    Unfortunately the other citizens of Uvalde don’t give a flying fuck about them, their families, the children, or the known utter failure of these perfect examples of ACAB.