Texas state Senator Roland Gutierrez represents Uvalde and says the police response at the Covenant School, in which three students and three teachers were gunned down, was the opposite of the response at the Uvalde massacre.
Police in Nashville ran towards the gunfire and killed the shooter in less than 14 minutes. It took police in Uvalde 77 minutes to kill that shooter but not until he killed 19 children and two teachers.
Gutierrez continues to be disgusted by what happened at Robb Elementary last May. "Where you had 396 police. Not just the local cops screwed up. The state cops screwed up. The federal cops failed. Everything that could have gone wrong went wrong."
Nashville police released body cam video and gave a fully transparent accounting of what happened within 24 hours.
The senator says he knows that because he signed a non-disclosure agreement to see all the body cam footage. "All I've seen is failure after failure. I've seen cops talking on camera about how dangerous this is rather than doing their job, DPS troopers suggesting to themselves there's got to be a better way to do this so they don't get killed. That's the kind of cowardice that was on display May 24th."
He adds four victims had a pulse when they were finally removed from the school, but only one survived.
Gutierrez says there's been zero accountability from the governor's office and the DPS. He would like to see DPS director Steven McCraw fired.
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