First Pictures Of Uvalde Shooting Emerge As City Hires Lawyers To Block Evidence
The first images from inside the Uvalde school shooting have emerged,
revealing that police were heavily armed with rifles and a ballistic shield, yet still waited another
58 minutes while gunman Salvador Ramos continued his rampage - leaving 19 students and two teachers dead.

The photo, obtained by the
Austin American Statesman and
KVUE on Monday, casts an even more damning shadow on the Uvalde police department's response to the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
Despite entering the school
just nine minutes after Ramos, officers waited
nearly an hour to advance despite their superior firepower and training. Eventually, at 12:50 p.m.
a Border Patrol BORTAC agent ignored police orders and burst into the classroom, shooting and killing Ramos.
"There were 19 officers in there," said Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, at a media briefing days after the shooting (per the
NY Post), "In fact, there were plenty of officers to do whatever needed to be done, with one exception — the incident commander inside believed they needed more equipment and more officers to do a tactical breach at that point."
The pictures are undoubtedly one of the reasons
the City of Uvalde and the police department hired a private law firm to prevent the release of basically all records pertaining to the mass shooting.
According to
VICE, Uvalde wants to suppress body camera footage, photos, 911 calls, emails, text messages, criminal records, and more.