Uvalde releases police bodycam footage from school shooting – Austin American-Statesman
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Uvalde officials have released police body camera footage from seven Uvalde police officers who responded to the May 24 attack at Robb Elementary School, including one who approached the classroom three minutes behind the gunman, only to be pushed back by gunfire that sent him and other officers scrambling for cover.
All is quiet for the first 52 seconds of footage identified as belonging to SWAT commander Eduardo Canales as he and several other officers cautiously approach the classroom — “Watch that door! Watch that door!” he warns — when four loud shots ring out in rapid succession.
“Am I bleeding? Am I bleeding?” Canales asks fellow officers after reaching a hallway corner as two more shots are fired from inside the classroom. Later, the video shows Canales with blood on his hand from a wound to his ear.
“We got to get in there,” Canales tells just-arriving officers after briefly exiting the school. “Guy’s inside the classroom right now.”
That sense of urgency was somehow lost amid the arrival of hundreds of officers from multiple local, state and federal agencies, as more an hour passed before a U.S. Border Patrol tactical team led the way into the classroom and shot dead the gunman.
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