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Minnesmärke vid Robb Elementary School i Uvalde, Texas 12 juli 2022. (Eric Gay / AP)

Dåligt wifi bidrog till att så få räddades i Texas

Granskningen av skolmassakern i Texas i maj som släpptes på söndagen visar att många systemfel ledde till att 19 barn och två vuxna dog. Attacken som genomfördes av en ensam skytt pågick i 73 minuter innan den till slut kunde avbrytas.

På grund av skolans dåliga wifi-nät fick inte alla lärare veta i tid att de skulle låsa dörrarna och sätta sig och barnen i säkerhet, enligt CNN som läst rapporten. Skolans interna kommunikationssystem användes inte heller för att få fram det livsviktiga meddelandet.

Dessutom hade skolan ständiga problem med dörrar och lås som inte åtgärdades, ”något som visade sig förödande” står det i rapporten.

 
Skolmassakern på Robb Elementary School i Uvalde
Wikipedia (en)
On May 24, 2022, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers and wounded seventeen other people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States. Earlier in the day, he shot his grandmother in the face at home, severely wounding her. Outside the school, he fired shots for approximately five minutes before entering unobstructed with an AR-15 style rifle through an unlocked side entrance door. He then shut himself inside two adjoining classrooms, without locking the classroom door, killed nineteen students and two teachers, and remained in the school for more than an hour before members of the United States Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) fatally shot him. The shooting is the third-deadliest school shooting in the United States, after the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, and the deadliest in Texas.Law enforcement officials in Uvalde have been heavily criticized for their actions in response to the shooting, and their conduct is being reviewed in separate investigations by the Texas Ranger Division and the United States Department of Justice. After initially praising first responders to the shooting, Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for an investigation into the lack of action by incident commanders. Police officers waited 78 minutes on-site before breaching the classroom to engage Ramos. Police also cordoned off the school grounds, resulting in violent conflicts between police and civilians, including parents, who were attempting to enter the school to rescue children.Shortly after the shooting, local and state officials gave inaccurate reports of the timeline of events and exaggerated police actions. The Texas Department of Public Safety acknowledged that it was an error for law enforcement to delay an assault on Ramos's position in the student-filled classrooms, attributing this to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD) police chief's assessment of the situation as one with a "barricaded subject" instead of an "active shooter". Law enforcement was also aware there were injured individuals in the school before they made their entrance.Following the shooting, which took place only ten days after the 2022 Buffalo shooting, wider discussions ensued about American gun culture and violence, gridlock in politics, and law enforcement's failure to halt or intervene during the attack. Some have advocated for a renewal of a federal ban on assault weapons, including President Joe Biden. Others criticized politicians for their perceived role in continuing to enable mass shootings. Republicans have responded by resisting the implementation of gun control measures, and instead called for increasing security measures in schools, such as arming teachers. They also expressed concerns about the politicization of mass shootings. Around a month after the shooting, Congress passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and President Biden signed the bill into law; it was the most significant federal gun reform legislation in almost 30 years.
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