Uvalde city report clears local officers of wrongdoing

By ALEJANDRO SERRANO AND WILLIAM MELHADO Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Families were infuriated by praise for local law enforcement in a report on the Robb Elementary School shooting released Thursday by a private investigator. UVALDE — A city-commissioned independent review of Uvalde police’s response to the& Robb Elementary School shooting& cleared local officers of wrongdoing, infuriating parents of the 19 children killed in the massacre and at least two city council members who rebuked the report after it was released Thursday. City officials& hired private investigator& Jesse Prado, a retired Austin police detective, to conduct the review into the response from the city’s police department to the May 24, 2022 mass shooting that also resulted in the deaths of two teachers and injured 17 others. The findings of the report were presented in a question-and-response format with Prado at a city council meeting and the actual 182-page report was released later Thursday after city officials shared it with families. Prado said the review identified training, communication and leadership lapses, but he also commended some of the city’s officers and characterized their actions...