In this History episode we focus on the May 24th, 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — nineteen children and two teachers killed, 400 law enforcement officers present, and 77 minutes during which officers waited in the hallway while children called 911 from inside the classroom. The DOJ's 600-page report described "cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy, and training." Active shooter protocols trained into every responding officer were not followed.
We trace the specific decisions made in those 77 minutes — incident commander Pete Arredondo's decision to treat an active shooter as a barricade scenario, children whispering their names to 911 dispatchers, one mother who vaulted a fence and brought her own children out — alongside the accountability proceedings that followed. The city-commissioned investigation cleared the police and blamed the parents. The DOJ investigation condemned the response. The first officer tried — Adrian Gonzales — was acquitted in 2026. The families are still waiting.
This podcast features narration with a synthetic AI voice.
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