DPS Director McCraw spun his “one bad cop” narrative to the Senate – that one cop was stopping all these other cops from entering, and that DPS had no culpability. Then the bodycam footage came out and exposed McCraw’s lie. For more facts, visit:.

@doj More information can be found at

What do you want to know?.

@DOJ /COPS³ may be dishonest, but they're not wrong – at least from a public-relations scandal-management perspective. Image is everything. Perception is reality. Control the narrative, even if it has to be a false narrative.

Third, after Pulse, officials didn’t release any surveillance/bodycamera video. After Uvalde, surveillance/bodycamera video was leaked to the media.

Second, Mina’s victims were gays in a nightclub. Arredondo’s victims were children in a school. The protocols are the same, but the public expectation & reaction is not.

Why the extreme difference? Why the absurdity? Three reasons. First, Mina did a fabulous job of framing and controlling the narrative. Arredondo/ Escalon/ McCraw did a terrible job.

John Mina gave his officers medals of valor. They were hailed as heroes. Pete Arredondo may be looking at prison time. His officers were called cowards. Bad is good, and mediocre is bad. Bad is heroic, and mediocre is cowardly.

Pete Arredondo’s officers entered the building immediately² and changed the gunman’s focus from kids to cops. They called for SWAT. Officers waited 74 minutes to rescue shot/injured hostages.

They entered after the gunman’s AR15 jammed.¹ They called for SWAT. Officers then waited three hours to rescue shot/injured hostages.

It’s fascinating stuff. Absurdities are often fascinating. As the Department of Justice COPS organization advises: Frame the narrative, then Control the narrative. At the 2016 Pulse shooting, @SheriffMina's officers waited outside the building for 8 minutes and 189 rounds.¹.

That was one of the first questions the SWAT/BORTAC Commander asked: Where inside the room is the gunman? Where inside the room are the children?. The discussion was the mass murder of children. And two grown men were not taking the discussion seriously. They were acting.

First, not every officer had on a bulletproof vest. And those who did had vests that would stop a pistol, but not an AR15…. Second, shooting into a dark room filled with children is not like shooting at a gun range. No thinking person believes that. .

Inside our Texas Capitol building, two grown men were discussing the mass murder of children. Instead of having a serious conversation, DPS Director McCraw and Senator @electCharles Perry performed theater.

In the Interim Report, Representative Dustin @Burrows4TX promised a Final Report. When will that report be published?

Complimentary copies of the Badger-McLaughlin report about DPS Director McCraw's Uvalde-shooting testimony can be found at the El Progreso Library on Main Street and Amy's Attic on Getty Street. You can also download a pdf copy at @TxDPS #Uvalde

RT @tcuwags: @James_Barragan @TexasTribune @jaspscherer Best news today. Maybe call one last press conference to answer all the questions a….

Page 112 of the report. Senators @TeamBettencourt and @SenBryanHughes buy into McCraw's fabricated narrative. Who will pay the price? The people at the next shooting. The full Badger-McLaughlin report can be downloaded at

At 12:13 p.m., two officers entered the building and told the Tactical Commander, the SWAT/BORTAC Commander, about the 911 calls and the victims inside the classroom. He then confirmed the information.

In his four-hour Senate testimony about the mass-murder of children, @TxDPS Director Steve McCraw lied directly to Senator @CreightonForTX. What McCraw told Creighton never happened is exactly what happened. It's on the bodycamera.

³ That’s not to say that the School Chief did a great job, or that he is blameless. Far from it. But 40 other officers (including McCraw’s DPS officers) knew there were children inside that classroom. And what did they do? Stand around. Wait. Wonder.

² Scapegoats provide an easy way out. Otherwise, you’ll have to deal with flawed protocols, the limits of human bravery, the limits of active-shooter protocols and training, the possibly no-win situation officers found themselves in, and other difficult questions.