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There is a Coverup at Uvalde

Nadin Brzezinski
4 min readMay 27, 2022

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Adding a known now timeline

“It was the wrong decision not to breach the room,” is the understatement of the day from Department of Public Safety Director Steven C. McCraw. They should have breached the door and treated this as an active shooting

I have covered the police beat. I know that police officer are very good at setting up a story that might change on the edges, but never in the core elements.

Over the last seventy-two hours, the Texas Department of Public Safety has changed the timeline and major elements of the story more than a few times. We now know that they decided to treat this as a barricaded subject, even after people were shot.

Let me repeat again what DPS director McGraw said. “It was the wrong decision not to breach the room. “

The DPS is also saying this decision was taken by the school Chief who was serving as incident commander. This is a department with four officers, a detective, and the soon-to-be-former chief. It’s clear he is the fall guy, right or wrong.

The reason given was that the shooter had barricaded himself. Never mind people were already been shot at. There were already injured and dead people. There were children calling from inside the schoolroom as well to the 911 center. I also know every critical incident has constant updates…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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