Texas shooting: Outrage at the police chief’s participation in an active shooter course in December

Texas shooting: Despite an active shooter threat, law enforcement admits to mistakenly assuming the gunman was ‘barricaded.’

Officials have acknowledged serious delays in the law enforcement response to the slaughter of 19 children and two instructors at a Texas elementary school.

Police are facing mounting criticism for their response to the tragedy at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday, including claims that they did not intervene quickly enough to apprehend lone gunman Salvador Ramos.

The Texas Department of Public Safety’s Steven McCraw claimed cops did not enter a classroom door for more than an hour after arriving on Tuesday.

Despite pleas and phone calls from terrified children inside their classrooms, authorities wrongly assumed the gunman had been “barricaded” and was no longer an active shooter danger.

It comes as hundreds of protesters protested the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston on Friday, when Senator Ted Cruz and former President Donald Trump addressed the gun rights lobby group and said their political opponents are “exploiting” the tragedy.

Texas shooting Meanwhile, the killer’s mother has pleaded the victims of her son’s murders to forgive him, because Ramos “had his reasons” for what he did.

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