The Justice Department has tapped a team of experts including several retired police chiefs to help run a wide-ranging investigation of the law-enforcement response to the elementary-school massacre in Uvalde, Texas
Actor Matthew McConaughey made an impassioned speech during a White House press briefing Tuesday calling on the American people to come together to support gun reform after 19 children and two teachers were killed in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.
Photo: Susan Walsh/APWASHINGTON—The Justice Department has tapped a team of experts including a senior FBI official and several retired police chiefs to help run a wide-ranging investigation of the law-enforcement response toThe review will examine what policies, training, communications, deployment tactics and other practices law-enforcement agencies followed while responding to the May 24 mass shooting that...
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