Steel Classroom Doors Open To The Outside In Uvalde Adding To Police Challenge
When Border Patrol agents and police arrived in the hallway of a Uvalde elementary school in Texas on May 24, they encountered an immediate disadvantage: a gunman and his victims were locked in adjacent ranks behind metal doors. The tactical groups, known as BORTAC, are well aware of the breach techniques used to raid homes hidden along the US-Mexico border, which they believe are occupied by traffickers and smugglers. In these scenarios, a lock with a dead bolt on the door of a residential home usually does not fit the heavy, cylindrical agents they can use to get inside....