AUSTIN, Texas — Uvalde authorities have released authorities body cam video from 7 Uvalde cops officers who reacted to the May 24 attack at Robb Elementary School, consistingof one who approached the class 3 minutes behind the gunman, just to be pressed back by shooting that sentout him and other officers rushing for cover.
All is peaceful for the veryfirst 52 seconds of video recognized as belonging to SWAT leader Eduardo Canales as he and numerous other officers meticulously technique the class — “Watch that door! Watch that door!” he cautions — when 4 loud shots ring out in quick succession.
“Am I bleeding? Am I bleeding?” Canales asks fellow officers after reaching a corridor corner as 2 more shots are fired from inside the class. Later, the video reveals Canales with blood on his hand from a injury to his ear.
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“We got to get in there,” Canales informs just-arriving officers after briefly leaving the school. “Guy’s inside the class right now.”
That sense of seriousness was insomeway lost amidst the arrival of hundreds of officers from several regional, state, and federal firms, as more than an hour passed priorto a U.S. Border Patrol tactical group led the method into the class and shot dead the shooter.
City authorities had held off on making the videofootage public at the instructions of Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee, however Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin stated he thought that Sunday’s release of the first extensive investigative report into the shooting, accompanied by video taken from the corridor exterior the class, altered the scenario.
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