Justice Department details failures in law enforcement response to Uvalde school shooting

The Justice Department released a 600-page report on the law enforcement response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and two teachers dead. Attorney General Merrick Garland called it "a failure that should not have happened."

Read more about the DOJ's report on Yahoo News.

Video transcript

MERRICK GARLAND: The department's review concluded that a series of major failures-- failures in leadership, in tactics, in communications, in training, and in preparedness-- were made by law enforcement leaders and others responding to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary. Within minutes of arriving inside the school, officials on-scene transitioned from treating the scene as an active shooter situation to treating the shooter as a barricaded subject.

That failure meant that law enforcement officials prioritized a protracted evacuation of students and teachers in other classrooms instead of immediately rescuing the victims trapped with the active shooter. It meant waiting for a set of keys to open the classroom door, which the report concludes was likely unlocked anyway. And it meant that the victims remained trapped with the shooter for more than an hour after the first officers arrived on-scene. The victims and survivors of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022 deserve better.