they ve got equipment. they ve got everything they need. they ve got the personnel. the only thing they re missing right now is courage. shimon, i m looking at all the different uniforms. just looking at this for the first time for many people who are watching this unfold, we have been told for several weeks now the name chief arredondo. are we seeing him still? i don t see him anywhere. this is not just the school resource officers anymore. is border patrol here, are uvalde police here? what are these uniforms? you see border patrol obviously. you see a sheriff s deputy there kneeling with one of the ballistic shields. i think the border patrol may be there behind him. at this point those swat team members, for lack of a better word, they start arriving here. these are the guys that arredondo says he called for
hold your panel! [indiscernible] what am i seeing in that? is that still a shield there? it is a shield. you heard the shot. that appears to have grabbed their attention. you have about half a dozen or so officers go down the hall. they notably leave one of the shields behind. the shield is, we had heard again and again and again that one of the reasons for the delay was a request for ballistic shields and they were waiting for those to arrive. he s wearing a gas mask there, right, the border patrol? i don t understand the purpose of that. i saw a couple of them put gas masks on. they just weren t organized. they don t know what they want
minutes, an hour to get there, this is a very rural place. those folks could have been spread out all over who knows how far away. that s why police officers, first responders have been trained since columbine to not wait for swat. you should never have heard that radio call, wait for swat to arrive. no. you are here, you ve got the long guns, the ballistic shields, there s 20 cops standing around in that hallway. go down the hallway and do your job. they ve been trained since columbine to do that? that was 99. columbine the process was to contain the area and wait for swat. no, that s not what we do. training changed after columbine. a sea change in training. it wasn t always, i don t think, patrol officers riding around with long guns. i think because of the active shooter training, that changed. so they said, okay, especially with some of the smaller police departments, you need to start training your officers with
survivors who have an unbelievable road ahead of them. the psychological impact of this violence is unreal. it s compounded, made worse by when they see this. the kids have to ask their mothers why didn t the police come and help us? we heard them, they were outside our doors. why didn t they help us? why? listen, you see ballistic shields, you see kevlar helmets, you see level three and level four body armor on these people. i mean, they got long guns. they ve got everything they need. right now they re just standing around. how many of those people, the 21 that died, bled to death while, you know, they re standing around not getting in there? if they had gotten medical attention, would they still be alive? they re doing some sort of triage at some point. we re at an hour and four minutes, the last agonizing minutes before officers finally breach the classroom is coming up next. we ll be right back. metastat.
the families know the truth? that s what s infuriating i think for all of us here. we re sitting here. we are analyzing. we re evaluating. we re thinking about all the reasons it s important to play this in its totality, not snippets, not sound bites. but to actually have people walk through as it happened. the shooting at robb elementary that claimed so many lives. and it s not just those who have lost their lives. there are survivors who have an unbelievable road ahead of them. an unbelievable road ahead of them. psychological impact of this violence is unreal. but it s compounded. it s made worse by when they see this. when the kids, that i have to ask their mothers, why didn t the police come and help us? we heard them. they were outside our doors. why didn t they help us? why? listen, you see ballistic shields. you see kevlar helmets. you see level 3 and level 4 body armor on these people. i mean, they got long guns. they ve got everything they need. right now they re just s