Criticism and anger over the police response time in the Uvalde massacre

After the pain has come the anger.

The police response time to the shooting at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, is at the center of criticism two days after a barbaric act that still no one can explain.

The inhabitants of this small town wonder why it took so long for the different forces to reach the site where 19 children and two teachers lost their lives.

The shooter unloaded his deadly semi-automatic rifle from 11:40 a.m. until he was shot down at approximately 1 p.m.

Local authorities, on the other hand, defend his actions and assure that the reaction prevented the death toll from growing in what is the most serious school massacre that the United States has experienced in the last decade.

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A published video revealed this Thursday by

reveals the minutes of frustration and panic experienced by the parents of the Robb school.

“There is a shooting at the school and these police officers are telling parents to leave, they are not letting parents pick up their children,” says the voice of a man who was broadcasting live outside the center.

The video was deleted hours later, but has been recovered by the digital agency Storyful.

"Kill him or do something, damn it!" A woman shouted in frustration at another point in the recording.

The investigation, in the hands of federal authorities such as the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Weapons, is ongoing and attempts to fill in the gaps in the line of events.

Since Salvador Ramos left his grandmother's house, after 11:00, whom he shot in the face, until his death inside one of the classrooms.

Authorities have disclosed that the shooter, who was armed with an AR 15 automatic rifle, entered the school at 11:40 a.m.

The first agents, from the local police, arrived four minutes later, always according to the official account.

The images taken by an anonymous witness show policemen guarding the perimeter of the school, making sure that parents do not enter the site.

“You do know they're little kids, right?

They don't know how to defend themselves!

There are six-year-olds there who don't know how to defend themselves from a shooter!” shouted the man who recorded the video.

According to Víctor Escalon, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, the first police officers on the scene intervened by shooting the assailant, an 18-year-old man.

"They do not enter because of the fire they are receiving, but they call to have reinforcements," the official said at a press conference.

Escalon affirms that the evacuation of minors began to be done since the first officers arrived at the scene.

"Where were the police?" Adolfo Cruz asked himself Tuesday in front of the school.

The 69-year-old man had been looking for his 10-year-old granddaughter, Elihana Torres, all afternoon.

Cruz did not know it then, but the minor's body was inside the crime scene.

Just hours after the attack, he was one of the first family members to show anger at the Uvalde Independent School District, a body that governs schools and has its own police, in charge of monitoring campuses.

"It is a force that we all pay with our taxes and they did nothing..." Cruz told this newspaper.

The role of this tiny force made up of a police chief, a detective and four officers, all of whom are armed, is also being reviewed.

The Texas government initially claimed that one of these police officers was the first law enforcement officer with whom the shooter had contact.

This version has been corrected this Thursday, when it was reported that no one prevented Salvador Ramos from going to the educational center.

The murderer only had to jump the fence that surrounds the school, one of the 21 measures contemplated by the school district to prevent events like the one on Tuesday.

The special tactical team took an hour to arrive at the school since reinforcements were called, Escalon admitted this morning.

This was made up of several federal agents, especially from the border patrol, entered the school and finally killed Ramos.

“It immediately turned into a rescue operation, how to save the children,” the spokesman said.

The shooting also left 17 people injured.

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