the mayor s decisions after reading the report into doing what he thinks needs to be done to protect the people of uvalde. the second question that you asked was remind me. based on what you guys found out, should the police chief of the city take command i think at the end of the day we do not specify which officers should ve taken over command in here because that would be a little bit of our opinion as to who should ve. what i will tell you is this. there were officers in that building who knew or should ve known more needed to be done. and there was also officer who s should ve seen some of the chaos going on in at least at a minimum, if they didn t take over command or try to assume command, they should ve began asking questions or offered this support and guidance, and eventually maybe they would have gotten command to have a better response from that. lady in the front row, go ahead.
angry. you have to think about it like this. okay? it is going to be nearly eight weeks since this mass murder happened in this community where 19 students and 2 teachers were massacred inside robb elementary school and the mayor just now is announcing an internal investigation. put yourself in the shoes of this community. what s taken so long? there was a step that the mayor said he took today to suspend the acting uvalde police chief but the community is waiting for accountability for eight weeks. i asked the mayor that specific question. why did you wait? he walked away and i didn t get an opportunity to follow up but what he did say is texas dps taken the statements from the police officers and waiting to be returned to the city.
and the city manager and the police chief. what do you want to say to those family members who were kicked out of the meeting? i don t know what that situation is there. i don t know what the deal the mother was screaming at me, or the biological parent. but i met with some of the family members, they have a group that they all get with, i worked with the junior college, the legislative committee to share this with the family. so i don t know what that man s relationship is with his daughter. i don t know what it was. there s three dads who were not allowed into this meeting. well, you re asking me something you need to be talking to him and to the rest of the family. i have no control over that. so who s inviting these families to these events? the families made the list of who was coming to that meeting. so the families get to pick and choose to gets information? again, you re asking me something that i can t tell you. they re telling me they re pointing fingers
ryan, it paints the chaos of the day. we ve spent the day reporting about the investigative committee s findings. and a lot of it talks about the chaos of the day, the lack of command. and what we see in this newly body camera footage that we obtained from the mayor, the mayor here of the city of uvalde releasing it to us first. what you see here is a picture of officers really not in control. you have officers outside of the school trying to assess the situation, and then you have officers inside. and specifically for the first time, we ve seen that video, ryan, of the inside of the school, the hallway of the school. for the first time now on this body camera footage, we see pete arradondo, the school police chief. we get to see him in action as he s talking to the officers, as he s near the door where the classroom is. and some of the decisionmaking
obviously when you re in the midst of the job, the chaos needs to be controlled. when you know you re at a school, you know there s victims there, children, adults, children, regardless of fire entry has to be made. to watch the breakdown in communication, i think the potential lack of training and multiple agencies trying to operate together, it sort of starts falling apart. and even during the conference they had, there was a systematic collapse of errors, absolutely. sergeant, your response as well, just give us your reaction to what you saw. it s embarrassing. you ve got a police chief who understands the buck stops with him. and we see him fumbling and fiddling with a key ring of keys trying to get into a classroom. he s begging and pleading with someone who s massacring children realtime, talking to him so politely and carefully asking him questions that obviously he s not going to respond to.