Nearly 400 Uvalde Officers were on the scene for the shooting

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A damning new report into the Uvalde school massacre has condemned the almost 400 law enforcement officers who arrived for "failing to prioritise innocent victims' safety over their own".

High school dropout *name redacted* killed 21 people, including 19 children, at Robb Elementary School in Texas on 24 May.

A 77-page report was released on Sunday detailing what happened, after complaints that it had taken more than an hour to bring down 18-year-old *name redacted*.

It showed blame rested on almost every agency who attended, highlighting "systemic failures" and "ultimately poor decision-making" from officers both inside and outside the school.

There was no overall command, "chaos," and a lack of unity in decision-making.

And it also singled out the school for errors - saying security doors weren't properly locked and some "active shooter" protocols weren't followed.

There was a general "lackadaisical approach", it said, adding: "At Robb Elementary, law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training, and they failed to prioritise saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety."

But it also went on to say there were no individual "villains".

"Other than the attacker, the committee did not find any 'villains" in the course of its investigation," it said.

"There is no-one to whom we can attribute malice or ill motives. Instead, we found systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making."

The report was written after a Texas House investigative committee had been asked to look into the incident.

It is the first to criticise both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities in Uvalde, for the inaction at the school.

Around 40 people testified behind closed doors, including members of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police chief and officers, the district superintendent, the school's principal, a teacher and custodial staff.

For the first time, it detailed how many officers were on site by the end of the shooting - 376.

This included 149 border patrol agents, 91 state troopers, 25 Uvalde police offices, and a number of US Marshals and Drug Enforcement Agency staff.

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