“Officer after officer said that they didn’t think there were children inside that wing because it was so quiet,” Lomi Kriel of the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Unit, who has been analyzing the evidence with a team of reporters, says in the excerpt. “They said that because it was so silent, they didn’t hear any screams or any indication that a child was inside that wing, that they believed it was empty, even though it was the middle of a school day on one of the last days of the semester.”
In the documentary and related reporting, the news organizations draw on the investigative materials to reconstruct the day’s events, giving a detailed analysis of one of the most criticized mass shooting responses in recent history, and providing extraordinary insight into law enforcement officers’ thoughts and actions at the time. Featuring never-before-published interviews conducted by state and federal investigators in the days immediately after the shooting, the documentary identifies critical missteps as the response unfolded; explores the candid fears, regrets and anguish expressed by officers; and underlines the complexity, confusion and tragedy of the day.
Accounts from law enforcement officers in a new FRONTLINE/The Texas Tribune/ProPublica documentary show that Robb Elementary students stayed quiet and hidden on May 24, 2022 as they were trained to do – and, because of that, 'officers thought they weren't there' and took longer to help, reporter...
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