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Dustin Burrows: “You should not have the person in overall command of the…”

Featuring: Dustin Burrows, Republican | Texas House of Representatives, District 83

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Burrows' Criticism in Uvalde report on KAMC News

Published | Video Starts at 19:44

But where I am critical is people kept describing the situation as it unfolded after 10, 15, 20 minutes, chaos and they were trying to figure out what to do. You should not have the person in overall command of the situation on the inside of the building. That person ought to be in tactical command, but not overall command. So what I have is if you show up on scene and it's chaos, you should find out, well, who's in charge here? (19:44–19:50)

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Asserts that the overall commander should not be inside the building during an incident.

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