Newly Released Uvalde Bodycam Footage Shows Parents Pleading With Police to Act [WATCH]

Newly released body camera footage from the May 24, 2022, mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, captures parents pleading with law enforcement officers to enter the building while a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers inside, as reported by The New York Post.

The video, part of the final set of records withheld by local authorities during a prolonged legal battle over public access, was released this week following a unanimous vote in July by the Uvalde CISD school board.

For more than three years, families and the public had pressed for transparency amid grief and unanswered questions.

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In the footage, parents can be heard urgently pleading with officers only minutes after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos began his deadly attack, one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history.

“Whose class is he in?” one parent asks. Another shouts, “Come on man, my daughter is in there!”

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The Associated Press reported that additional videos show officers both inside and outside the school debating their next steps — at times suggesting throwing gas through windows or looking for a key to access the locked classroom.

Parents, growing more desperate, moved toward a fence and shouted at officers to take action.

“Either you go in or I’m going in, bro,” one parent tells an officer in the footage. “My kids are in there, bro… Please!” Officers can be heard repeatedly instructing parents to stay back.

Parents begged law enforcement to act faster at the Uvalde school shooting in May 2022.

Nearly 400 officers waited more than 70 minutes before confronting the gunman.

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The newly released material includes six hours of body camera footage, as well as documents revealing that deputies had visited Ramos’ home three months before the shooting after his mother expressed fear of him.

Footage released last year showed officers in the hallways of Robb Elementary during the standoff, alongside audio from 911 calls placed by teachers inside.

One teacher reported hearing “a lot, a whole lot of gunshots,” while another sobbed on the line as dispatchers urged them to stay quiet. “Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry!” the first teacher pleaded before hanging up.

The response by law enforcement — with nearly 400 officers on scene from multiple agencies — has been condemned by both state and local investigations as a catastrophic failure.

Nearly 150 U.S. Border Patrol agents and 91 state police officials were among those present, yet officers waited over 70 minutes before confronting the shooter.

Just before arriving at the school, Ramos shot and wounded his grandmother at her home, stole a pickup truck, and drove to Robb Elementary.

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While dozens of officers stood in the hallway, students inside called 911 begging for help, and parents outside pleaded for officers to act. A tactical team ultimately entered the classroom and killed Ramos.

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