Texas school shooting probe clears police officers despite ‘many problems’

Family members arrive for a special city council meeting in Uvalde (Eric Gay/AP)

An investigation into a Texas school shooting has cleared local police officers despite acknowledging a series of failures in the response to the 2022 attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

Several family members of victims walked out in anger midway though a presentation that portrayed Uvalde Police Department officers as acting swiftly and appropriately, in contrast to previous reports that faulted police at every level.