Ten Cops on Scene. Shots Still Firing. One Officer on Trial.

Let me tell you what happened in that courtroom today.

The prosecution called Officer Ruby Gonzalez to the stand. She's a school district cop. She worked alongside Adrian Gonzales. She trained under him. He helped teach the active shooter course she attended just two months before the massacre at Robb Elementary.

She's also a prosecution witness. She was supposed to help their case.

Instead, she helped destroy it.

What She Actually Testified

Ruby Gonzalez heard the shots fired call while at home on lunch break, less than a mile from the school. She grabbed her duty belt, got in her unit, and drove to Robb Elementary. She arrived at approximately 11:35:42, about two to three minutes after the call.

When she got there, approximately ten officers from two to three different agencies were already on scene on the east side of the building. Border Patrol. Uvalde PD. School district police.

What were they doing?

She ran toward the building. They stood there.

When she reached the fourth grade hallway, it was already full of officers. So many that she testified injecting herself would have "just taken up more space." So she went to do crowd control instead.

The Moment That Should End This Case

On redirect, the prosecutor asked Officer Gonzalez if "all of the shooting had been accomplished" by the time she arrived at 11:35:42. She agreed. As far as she knew, the shooting was over.

Then the defense attorney stood up.

He pulled out the Texas Ranger report. The official timeline. And he started reading.

11:35:43. Shot fired.

11:35:44. Shot fired.

11:35:51. Shot fired.

11:35:51. Another shot.

11:35:51. Another.

11:35:52. Shot. Shot. Shot.

11:35:56. Shot.

11:35:57. Shot.

At least ten gunshots. All fired AFTER she arrived. AFTER ten officers from multiple agencies were already there. One second after her arrival timestamp, children were still being shot.

And nobody was running toward the gunfire.

The Question Nobody Can Answer

Adrian Gonzales is charged with 29 counts of child endangerment. The theory is that he failed to act, failed to engage, failed to follow his training.

But here's what we learned today:

The school building doors were not locked. The classroom doors were not locked. A "magnet system" culture existed where teachers routinely defeated the locks for convenience. The active shooter training Gonzales helped teach was primarily classroom discussion and scenario talk, not realistic stress inoculation with actual breaching and stacking exercises. Officers didn't have keys to Robb Elementary because Gonzales was assigned to the high school, not the elementary school.

And when shots were still being fired, ten officers from multiple agencies were standing in a breezeway while a school district officer who went home for lunch ran toward the building.

Why is Adrian Gonzales the one on trial?

Why isn't the system that left building doors unlocked on trial? Why isn't the school administration that allowed teachers to defeat locks on trial? Why isn't the training program that taught officers to discuss scenarios instead of practice them on trial?

Nearly 400 officers responded that day. Only two face charges. And today's testimony showed at least ten of them standing around while gunshots continued.

This Is What Scapegoating Looks Like

Someone has to answer for 21 dead. I understand that. The families deserve accountability. I've said that from day one.

But accountability means holding the RIGHT people responsible. It means prosecuting the people whose decisions actually caused the failure. It means examining the SYSTEM, not just finding one officer to sacrifice so everyone else can move on.

What I watched today was a prosecution witness inadvertently proving that this is selective prosecution. That Adrian Gonzales is being held to a standard that dozens of other officers on scene that day will never face.

The defense asked Officer Gonzalez one of the most important questions of this trial:

Formulating a plan. While shots were still being fired. While children were dying.

And the one guy on trial is the school cop who was assigned to a different campus and showed up to help.

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I'll be watching every minute of what's left in this trial. And I'll be asking the question the prosecution doesn't want asked:

If the system failed, why is one man paying for it?