A Uvalde grand jury will weigh charges related to the Robb Elementary shooting

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Texas Standard 1/22/2024

This latest development comes one day after the U.S. Department of Justice issued a blistering report about the botched response to the Uvalde shooting, which left 21 dead.

From The Texas Newsroom:

A grand jury in Uvalde County has been impaneled to determine if charges should be brought in connection to law enforcement’s response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in May 2022, according to local reports.

The latest development, first reported by the Uvalde Leader-News, comes one day after the U.S. Department of Justice issued a blistering report about the botched response to the shooting, where 19 children and two schoolteachers were shot to death by an 18-year-old gunman.

The office of Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell did not respond to a request for comment. The Leader-News reported the jurors could spend up to six months reviewing the evidence.

The DOJ report released Thursday found “cascading failures” by law enforcement contributed to the massacre as officers waited more than an hour to engage the gunman, NPR reported.

More: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/uvalde-county-grand-jury-robb-elementary-school-shooting-texas/

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In first known action in criminal justice system, special grand jury to examine Uvalde response, newspaper reports

CNN by Matthew Hilk 1/20/2024

A special grand jury was chosen in Uvalde, Texas, Friday to investigate the response to the 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School, according to area newspapers.

A grand jury investigation would represent the first publicly known development within the criminal justice system amid all the investigations into the botched police response.

 The San Antonio Express-News reports District Attorney Christina Mitchell told them the grand jury would review evidence related to the mass shooting, but declined to comment on any focus of the grand jury investigation. Jurors are expected to spend at least six months investigating the case, according to The Uvalde Leader-News.

CNN has reached out to the local prosecutor and court officials but has not yet received a response.

Reports of the grand jury empanelment comes a day after Attorney General Merrick Garland visited Uvalde and delivered a scathing US Justice Department review of the law enforcement response – but the two events may be unrelated. The Uvalde Leader-News reports a pool of potential grand jurors had previously been summoned to appear today.

More: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/19/us/special-grand-jury-chosen-to-examine-uvalde-mass-shooting-response-newspaper-reports/index.html

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The DOJ report released Thursday found “cascading failures” by law enforcement contributed to the massacre as officers waited more than an hour to engage the gunman, NPR reported.

~Protocols~

It was always going to be protocols.

Force protection.
Site control.

The very nature of these things tend to value the officer over the victim. And over time, that has become the norm.
Most of the time, that's right, and alright. You want your boys to come home.

But you cannot upend the nature of a cop  What a cop is *for*.
That is what has happened.