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UNBELIEVABLE: Uvalde acting chief delayed after learning children were alive - The Untold Story

In a June 2022 protest, Uvalde residents demand accountability for law enforcement's slow response to the shooting [File: Lisa Krantz/Reuters]

A police commander on site during May’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, delayed taking action for 30 minutes after hearing that children were trapped inside a classroom with the gunman.

Audio obtained by CNN and released on Monday tracks a call between an emergency dispatcher and the city’s acting police chief Mariano Pargas, according to the Associated Press news agency.

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