The Department of Justice will investigate police decisions from the Uvalde school shooting. A former chief prosecutor talks to FOX 4 about what that investigation might include.
The investigation, announced while the, is unusual but happening because of what happened as 19 officers waited in a hallway outside the classrooms.
Usually, the justice department gets involved when the victims are targeted because of race or some other factors to indicate a hate crime. But this investigation will be about the failures to as quickly as possible get to the shooter and put the threat down. "Put together a timeline not just of the incident but of the training, the chain of command and the aftermath of this. Because obviously there was a lot of misinformation that came in the aftermath of this. So they're going to be interested in that too," he said.
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