Texas Officials Release Bodycam Footage From Uvalde’s Robb Elementary Shooting

Newly released body camera footage shows Texas law enforcement officers spending more than an hour outside an elementary school classroom after a man with a gun entered and fired shots. Officers spent crucial time discussing ways to enter the classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde before eventually breaching the classroom door and shooting the man. The situation unfolded in the morning of May 24, 2022. The man, later identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, went into the school at 11:33 a.m. that day and began shooting. He soon entered a classroom connected to another classroom. Law enforcement officers gathered outside the room and discussed saving the children inside, such as breaking open a window. “We’re going to get these kids out,” one officer says at 12:23 p.m. But officers opted to wait for a key or a breaching tool, the video shows, even after they heard more shots being fired in the room....