Uvalde Shooting Hallway Vid: Cowardly Cop Inaction

Were they ordered to allow a mass shooting? Quite possibly.

In the video, officers walk back and forth in the hallway, some leaving the camera frame, then reappearing, others training their weapons toward the classroom, talking, making cellphone calls, sending texts or looking at floor plans. None enters or attempts to enter the classrooms.

Even after hearing at least four shots from the classrooms 45 minutes after police arrived, they waited.

They asked for keys to one of the classrooms. (It was unlocked, investigators said later.) They brought tear gas and gas masks. They carried a sledgehammer. And still, they waited.