Juan Maldonado is the latest officer to be fired after intense scrutiny over law enforcement’s response to the Uvalde school shooting in Texas where 19 children and 2 teachers were killed.
The school police chief was singled out for blame, but a Times visual investigation found that scores of trained officers, including those from an elite Border Patrol unit, took many of the same steps.
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State troopers outnumbered local law enforcement 2-to-1 outside Robb Elementary, but the Department of Public Safety has blocked the release of records and carefully shaped the narrative to cast local authorities as incompetent.