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Trial to begin for police officer charged in delayed response to Uvalde school shooting
Adrian Gonzales faces 29 felony counts for allegedly failing to act during the 77-minute delay in stopping the Uvalde shooter, marking a rare prosecution of police inaction.
- Adrian Gonzales, a police officer present during the 2022 Uvalde school shooting, is on trial for failing to act, facing 29 counts of child endangerment as per his indictment.
- The indictment states Gonzales failed to engage or delay the shooter and did not follow his active shooter training to respond.
- Hundreds of officers waited 77 minutes before entering the classroom, during which 911 calls were made by teachers and children trapped inside with the gunman.
- Former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland commented that lives would have been saved if police had confronted the shooter immediately.
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