The most senior commander of police in Texas has described local law enforcement's response to last month's massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde as an "abject failure".
Steve McCraw, the Director of the Department of Public Safety has told members of the Texas Senate that children's lives were put needlessly at risk by a local commander who put the lives of officers first.
The testimony appeared to shock members of the Texas Senate who are leading one of several inquiries into the botched police response to the shooting at the Robb Elementary School.
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That key, he said, was not needed because he says there is evidence that the classroom in which the gunman was barricaded was not locked.