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Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday he was “misled” about what happened in the Uvalde school massacre, causing him to initially share inaccurate information with the public.
“I am livid about what happened,” Abbott said during a news conference in Uvalde, the site of the shooting where a gunman killed 19 students and two adults Tuesday. In his first news conference after the shooting, Abbott had praised how police handled the shooting.
“It could have been worse. The reason it was not worse is because law enforcement officials did what they do,” he said Wednesday.
But it came out earlier Friday that police had made a crucial error, waiting to enter a classroom because they believed it was no longer an active-shooter situation.
Steve McCraw, the directer of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said it was the “wrong decision, period.”
Abbott said Friday his initial remarks on the law enforcement response to the shooting were a “recitation” of what he had just been told in a briefing.
“As everybody has learned, the information that I was given turned out, in part, to be inaccurate, and I am absolutely livid about that,” Abbott said.
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