Uvalde Cops: 77 Minutes to Aktionmangel Gold
In the tragic botch-fest that was the 2022 Uvalde school shooting, nearly 400 officers turned 'active threat' into a 77-minute episode of 'Holding Pattern.' The 18-year-old shooter, with behavioral red flags waving like a Texas flag in July, was slow-rolled while kids and teachers faced horror. Despite calls for transparency, the Texas Department of Public Safety is pulling a classic 'release? Nah, maybe never.' Former Police Chief Pete Arredondo meanwhile insists, 'I did nothing wrong.' A family member crushed it: 'It will never be complete closure, but some sort of...closure.'
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When your cops treat an active shooter like a troublesome cat stuck in a tree, guess what? 77 minutes of nothing! And defense says, 'Hey he's just one out of 400,' like a TSA line excuse for incompetence.
Uvalde police response was the world’s longest game of freeze tag. Spoiler: The shooter was tagged first, but they insisted he was 'just chilling.'
The DPS slow-walking video releases is like Netflix teasing Stranger Things Season 5 but forgetting they promised it last year. Trauma plus suspense equals bad TV.
Source: Propublica | Published: 8/13/2025 | Author: by Lomi Kriel, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Alex Nguyen and Paul Cobler, The Texas Tribune
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