370 Officers Did Nothing. One Is On Trial. Today, The State's Own Expert Proved Why That's a Problem.

Let me tell you what happened in court today.

The prosecution in the Adrian Gonzales trial called Lt. Nick Hill to the stand. He's a Texas DPS Lieutenant, former Texas Ranger, and the man who spent an entire year building the official reconstruction of what happened at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022. He synchronized every body camera, every dash cam, every surveillance feed. He mapped every shell casing. He created the animation the state wanted to use to prove Adrian Gonzales failed to act.

Instead, under cross-examination, he proved the opposite.

Here's what Lt. Hill confirmed under oath:

Adrian Gonzales drove toward the gunfire. He parked his vehicle and within 14 seconds called out "shots fired" on his radio. He entered the building among the first officers. He stayed in a dangerous hallway while shots were being fired. He didn't run. He didn't retreat. He went in.

And Officer Randy Hill? The first officer actually dispatched to the scene? He was sent at 11:29:36, nearly three minutes before the shooter even entered the building. He didn't enter the school until 11:54:58. Twenty-five minutes later. He stood at a corner while Adrian Gonzales was already inside.

Officer Randy Hill is not on trial. Neither are the other 370+ officers who responded that day. Adrian Gonzales is the only one facing charges.

The Math Doesn't Add Up

I want you to think about this for a second. Nearly 400 law enforcement officers responded to Robb Elementary. Body camera footage shows some of them checking their phones. Sanitizing their hands. Standing in hallways. Waiting for instructions that never came.

Nineteen children and two teachers died while they waited.

And Adrian Gonzales, the officer who drove toward the gunfire, who entered the building, who stayed in a fatal funnel hallway under fire, is the one sitting at the defense table.

The state's own expert just told the jury that Gonzales acted while others waited. That he was inside while Officer Hill was still standing at a corner. That he didn't cower, didn't retreat, didn't run away.

So why is he the one on trial?

Scapegoating Is Not Accountability

I've said this before and I'll keep saying it: charging one person for a systemic failure is not justice. It's scapegoating. It's finding someone to blame so the system doesn't have to answer for itself.

The Uvalde response was a catastrophic failure at every level. Command structure. Communication. Training. Decision-making. The Texas Rangers' own investigation confirmed that. The Department of Justice report confirmed that. Everyone who has looked at this honestly has confirmed that.

But instead of holding the system accountable, they found one officer and charged him with 29 counts of child endangerment. One officer out of nearly 400. The guy who actually went into the building.

Today, the state's own expert proved why that doesn't make sense.

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Watch the testimony yourself. Listen to Lt. Hill confirm that Gonzales drove toward the gunfire. That he entered the building. That Officer Randy Hill waited 25 minutes. Then ask yourself the same question the jury is going to have to answer: Why is Adrian Gonzales the only one on trial?

This is what happens when a system needs someone to blame but can't face its own failures. This is what my father spent his career fighting against. The system finding convenient targets instead of doing the hard work of real accountability.

Adrian Gonzales is entitled to the presumption of innocence. The state has to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. And today, their own expert made that job a lot harder.