"If there's kids in there, we need to go in": Officers in Uvalde were ready with guns, shields and tools -- but not clear orders

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The finger-pointing has already prompted The Texas Monthly to ask: "Will We Ever Know the Truth About Uvalde?"AdFor this article, the Tribune reviewed a timeline of events compiled by law enforcement, plus surveillance footage and transcripts of radio traffic and phone calls from the day of the shooting.
50% : Can you hear me?" said the 50-year-old veteran of law enforcement, who leads a department of six.
50% : Officers inserted it into the door of room 111, and a tactical unit from the Border Patrol stormed in.
42% : "The law enforcement rarely thinks their response is textbook, [but] I can't think of another incident in the United States where it appears so many missed opportunities occurred to get it right."
41% : AdLaw enforcement experts say Arredondo was the rightful incident commander, though they were baffled why he abandoned his radios, declined to take charge and lacked access to classrooms.
39% : After the special agent's comment, nearly another hour passed before a tactical team from the Border Patrol breached the classroom doors and killed the gunman.
39% : More troopers arrived just minutes or seconds before the tactical team from the Border Patrol stormed the classroom, but did not participate in the breach.
38% : Some law enforcement officials are skeptical that the doors were ever locked.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.