[Split Thread] The Uvalde Shooting and responses to it

The classrooms the Uvalde shooter barricaded himself in may not have been locked, but even if they were, police had a tool that would have opened them: report

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A law enforcement source said Uvalde police didn't try to open the door to the room in which the shooter was barricaded. The source told the San Antonio Express-News that if the door was locked, police had a tool to pry it open. Uvalde police have received ongoing scrutiny for their response to the May 24 shooting that resulted in 21 deaths. Uvalde police didn't check to see if the door to the two connected classrooms the Robb Elementary shooter barricaded himself in with children was unlocked, a source close to the investigation told the San Antonio Express-News. The Texas Department of Public Safety previously said that the doors locked from the inside. But after viewing surveillance footage, investigators believed the doors may have not been able to be locked from the inside due to a malfunction, the source the Express-News. If the doors were in fact locked, police had access to a halligan bar, a forcible entry tool shaped like a crowbar that could have opened the door, the source said.

I've taken the liberty of copying these more recent posts to a new thread as the police response to this is now key to the event and it's worthy of its own thread Split from [Continuation] Today's Mass Shooting (2) feel free to quote from the parent thread

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