Records reviewed by ABC News suggest that members of that tactical team from U.S. Border Patrol appeared to be hindered by same type of decision-making paralysis, group-think, and miscommunication that crippled the broader response to the shooting.
from the more than 300 law enforcement officials who descended on Robb Elementary School on May 24.
"No matter how well-trained and well-equipped the BORTAC team was, their response still succumbed to the same chaos resulting from lack of incident command," said Cohen, also a longtime former street cop and renowned expert on police training and investigative tactics.
Additional BORTAC agents arrived on-scene shortly after Guerrero, and by 12:15 p.m. -- 25 minutes before the incident concluded -- a full tactical team had congregated outside the school, records show. Senior police officials would later explain their inaction as the result of the judgment that the siege was, but instead a "barricaded subject" incident that would allow for law enforcement to slowly try to bring the episode to a conclusion, potentially through negotiation.
At 12:30 p.m., the school district's police chief, Pete Arredondo, was overheard on a colleague's police body camera saying, "We've cleared out everything except for that room ... but uh, we're ready to breach but that door's locked." , who is now weighing charges. Mitchell has indicated that charging decisions will take time, possibly until the one-year anniversary of the shooting at the end of May.
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