Thread by @lomikriel

Everyone has stopped talking, including ⁦@TxDPS⁩ ⁦@GregAbbott_TX⁩ Uvalde ISD and police, ⁦@CBP⁩, and the Uvalde district attorney. All open records requests taken to the AG. Reporters now must rely on make no mistake strategic leaks. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

The only explanation offered officially so far, by @TxDPS McCraw, was to blame the local ISD police chief. Per McCraw, Arredondo alone held back all the law enforcement—Uvalde city police, the county sheriff’s deputies, Border Patrol officers, and DPS state.

For real?

.@RolandForTexas who represents Uvalde but is not on the investigating committee told @Forrest4Trees that he believes Abbott and McCraw are trying to divert attention from @TxDPS failures. “What I truly believe is that everybody froze. And now they need to go find a scapegoat.”

Reminder that @TxDPS received billions for @GregAbbott_TX’s controversial border program #OperationLoneStar. Including stationing extra troopers in Uvalde. @JohnnieMo compared the agency to having a Cold War budget - “what they ask for is what they get” texasstandard.org/stories/uvalde…

Earlier this year, @propublica @TexasTribune @MarshallProj found what #operationlonestar had accomplished wasn’t quite what @TxDPS @GregAbbott_TX had claimed: texastribune.org/2022/03/21/ope…

There is precedent for @GregAbbott_TX and @TxDPS to misstate claims of success as it relates to #operationlonestar themarshallproject.org/2022/04/27/rea…

Whether that happened in the #UvaldeschoolMassacre is impossible to know as @TxDPS has released no records about their involvement other than telling @@RolandForTexas that at least a dozen state troopers were in the hallway at some point.

https://twitter.com/LChurchilll/status/1537463440507379713

A very simple thing @TxDPS @GregAbbott_TX could do to clear up exactly their involvement and when they knew what is to release at least some of the records. Given the gunman is dead. @TxDPS ‘ McCraw is testifying tomorrow so we will see what he has to say!

.@tlangford and @zachdespart discovered some new details here from @TxDPS including that a senior official responding questioned the delay and who was in charge. It’s also a must read time line. But many questions remain:
texastribune.org/2022/06/20/uva…