On Thursday, the Justice Department released its report on the police response to the tragic shooting that took place at Robb Elementary School in May 2022, which claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers. Key takeaways from the 575-page report are that the victims “experienced unimaginable horror” and “witnessed unspeakable violence” as a result of the lack of courage and “cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy, and training,” per CNN's reporting, and that officers failed to recognize an active shooter situation and react sufficiently.
In an interview with CNN anchor Jim Acosta following the release of the report, Miguel Cerrillo, a parent of a child who survived the shooting and still has trouble sleeping at night because of what she witnessed that day, says that the new confirmation of the ways in which cops failed to protect the students, combined with the fact that he and his family still live across the street from the school in Uvalde, Texas and are made to feel less than welcome there, keeps the nightmare of the event fresh.
