UVALDE — More than a week after the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, one thing is clear: The heightened security surrounding this town near the...
from other agencies to fund thousands of Texas Army National Guard members on the border.
On the border in Del Rio, Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez, a former DPS trooper, agrees with the call to redefine priorities — to a certain extent. Following the mass shooting, his office sent eight members to help in Uvalde and immediately held meetings with community stakeholders and pressed for more officers.
Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez speaks during a news conference at a town square in Uvalde, Texas, Thursday, June 2, 2022. Gutierrez said the commander at the scene of a shooting at Robb Elementary School was not informed of panicked 911 calls from inside the school building. Ultimately, though, it wasn’t school police, or local officers, or the DPS, but the federal government — U.S. Border Patrol officers — who became the town’s heroes on the day of the massacre.
State Rep. James White, R-Houston, is chairman of the House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee. He defends Operation Lone Star, but said the focus now shouldn’t be “quibbling” about politics and instead use the energy on ensuring this doesn’t happen again.
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