The classroom doors at Robb Elementary School – which had metal frames and opened outwards – presented an extra obstacle for law enforcement as they responded to the massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers.
The door design is meant to keep an attacker from forcing their way in from the outside. But with 18-year-old shooter Salvador Ramos already inside the Uvalde school on May 24, the design back-fired and officers were not immediately able to get inside and prevent further carnage, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
“An outward-opening door is the worst-case scenario when you’re trying to breach,” Sgt. Scott Banes of the Fort Worth Police Department, who spent 12 years on a special response team that trained for active shooters and similar calls, told the paper.
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