Federal officers arriving on the scene of the Texas school shooting 'were told by the local police chief not to go into the building', but after a maddening 30 minutes overruled him and stormed the site
Pete Arredondo, chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, had stopped at least 19 officers from breaking into the school. Steven McCraw, director of Texas Department of Public Safety, said Arredondo mistakenly believed the gunman was contained and no longer a threat.
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