Uvalde officials told DPS that police had ‘zero hesitation,’ ‘each minute was used to save lives,’ document shows

Uvalde officials presented Texas DPS with a document labeled 'narrative' days after the school shooting. It said because police had 'zero hesitation' and 'moved directly toward the gunfire' they saved over 500 lives.

A report says the document contained an account of events different from the one that the DPS eventually presented.

Uvalde Officials Pushed Narrative of 'Hero' Cops With 'Zero Hesitation' in School Massacre - Democratic Underground

Uvalde Officials Pushed Narrative of ‘Hero’ Cops With ‘Zero Hesitation’ in School Massacre

Officials reportedly tried to get state leaders to sign off on the claim that “each minute [of the police response] was used to save lives of children and teachers.”

Uvalde officials told DPS that police had ‘zero hesitation,’ ‘each minute was used to save lives,’ document shows

The City of Uvalde painted its law enforcement officers as “heroes” that had “zero hesitation” and saved hundreds of people in the May 24 attack on Robb Elementary School, according to a document presented to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Uvalde officials painted police response to Robb Elementary shooting as heroic

The narrative, prepared by City Attorney Paul Parskey, would have blunted criticism —...

12 times law enforcement misrepresented key details of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde

Police in Uvalde, Texas, misled the public at least a dozen times regarding key aspects of the horrific shooting at Robb Elementary, a Grid analysis has found.