department of public safety is, i would say, the greatest failure in modern american law enforcement history as it pertains to an active shooter, period. what he described was an incident commander or a situation where he says he doesn t know whether or not this incident commander, the person who is the chief of police for the school district, this is his primary job is the safety of the school, what he says is he made the conscious decision not to enter the classroom while students, as you described children, as you described, were calling 911. on one particular occasion around 12:43 or 12:47, that caller was begging for the police saying, please send police now. earlier than that, at 12:16, a 911 caller told the operator that eight to nine students were still alive. at that point, a member of the law enforcement community was clearly aware that there were children that were alive inside
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With more than a week to go in 2020 and with December being historically the most deadly month for law enforcement, more police officers have died in the line of duty this year than in history. Currently, the Officer Down Memorial Page shows 286 deaths, which would be a record high but there are still 135 COVID-19 Deaths yet to be confirmed by ODMP, which would place the total Line of Duty number to 421.
It may take us well into 2021 to see the complete total but two things are clear.
2020 will be the most tragic year in American Law Enforcement History and very few even know about it.
that is facing a really huge challenge right now. nothing less than hunting for a terrorist. andrea? thank you so much, lester holt. a with me still, is tom ridge, the former homeland security chief and as mr. secretary, i wanted to bring in james cavanaugh, an nbc news and msnbc analyst and a retired atf special agent in charge. mr. cavanaugh, tom ridge and i were talking earlier about the fact that one of the suspects, tamerlan, the older brother, when he was killed, had an ied on him. had some sort of a device strapped around him and that has to be a concern as well. with his younger brother, who is still at large. it s a federal event, andrea, in american law enforcement history, that last night, united states police killed a suicide bomber on american soil. and that point of fact, is sort of lost in the greater emergency. but last night, united states police killed a suicide bomber right here and there s another
apparently have telephone contact with somebody in the compound. my name is dave koresh. david koresh. to his followers, david koresh was a messiah. god speaks to me. manifestation of god in the flesh. we believed this man had the truth. reporter: but to the u.s. government, david koresh was a threat. machine guns and explosive devices. reporter: in 1993, they went to war in waco. this ain t america anymore when the atf has that kind of power. reporter: it ended in catastrophe. 86 people dead. including at least 24 children. there had been nothing like this before. this siege was new and unique in american law enforcement history. if you distrust the government, waco is going to be symbolic to a lot of people of what they really fear. i m talking to you. somebody s going to get hurt. if he asks god for some kind of sign and god gives it, what does that mean? reporter: every saturday morning clive doyle and sheila martin study the bible. behold