Families and community members had heated, explicit words about the video leak before the victims’ loved ones had a chance to see it.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin told ABC News the following after the release of the video:“Whether it’s the DPS or the district attorney, this was chicken to blindside these families this way, you know. These families, they need to see the video, but they don’t need to see the gunman going in there. They don’t need to listen to those gunshots. They know what happened in that classroom. Why put them through that? Half of these families are out of town right now, Washington, D.C.
That officer was Uvalde CISD officer Ruben Ruiz who was trying to save his wife Eva Mireles. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw revealed during testimony that Mireles called her husband to say she was shot and was dying.Earlier today, state Representative Dustin Burrows said he intended to release the video regardless of a
“You didn’t have to do this. I don’t wanna hear my children’s screaming. I didn’t wanna hear the gunfire,” said one victim’s mother during a news conference on Tuesday., posted on her Facebook, asking, “How can they do that without thinking of the family first?”, said now that the video is out, he wants to know what will happen next.“There was a failure at every level, and the video is, I’m sure, going to shed light to that, but where does the accountability start? That’s what we want to know.
Adam Martinez, a father of two whose 8-year-old was at Robb Elementary the day of the shooting, questioned the officers’ actions during an exchange with Councilman Ernest W. “Chip” King.
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