this morning, new details about the 77 minutes police spent inside robb elementary school during the uvalde massacre, thanks to a new video taken inside the hallway. a journalist with the austin american-statesman viewed the video and told cnn what he saw. they actually proceed down to that room. and there is an exchange of gunfire at that point. and you see the police officers actually getting blown back. but then over the next more than hour, you see on this video police officers converging on the scene, arms themselves more and more with helmets. with assault rifles. with ballistic shields. even with tear gas canisters. but essentially, they stand there for an hour, as the minutes tick by.
point. you see the police officers getting blown back and one of them actually touches his head and i think he believes maybe he has been injured. then over the next more than one hour, you see on the video, police officers converging on the scene, arming themselves more and more with helmets, assault rifles, ballistic shields and even teargas canisters but essentially they stand there for one hour as the minutes ticked by and ultimately it s not until 12:50 pm, the gunmen entered the school at 11:33 am and it is not until 12:50 pm that we see the police officers move to the classroom to breach the door and take down the gunmen. when dispute has been what agencies were present in the hallway and not just who is in
officer for guidance. they didn t need it. because your training would have said, you know, you go in. whether it is one police officer, two, four, whatever, you know, they had the equipment, they had ballistic shields, ballistic helmets, they had everything they needed. there is no excuse not to go in. part of it is training. part of it isn t necessarily training. it is just poor leadership on the part of that department, and poor execution of any kind of tactics on the part of the officers. so it is just a bad situation that just keeps getting worse. seems look a multilayered failure, at so many levels. charles ramsey, always good to have you on. thank you. still to come this hour, the highland park police give more details about their prior encounters with the gunman accused of the july 4th deadly parade shooting. there is his mug shot. the 911 calls from the crimo
weeks of reporting here in texas, that some of those officers had high impact weapons as well as ballistic shields that investigators say gave them ample protection and firepower to move so much faster than we know that they did. and as we understand it, officers asking that very question, why we re not going in, why is what s happening? much more reporting to happen out of the story, as you continue to follow it. we appreciate you coming on with this breaking news, tony wilenski, and in the next hour will be getting reaction on this bringing to some texas state senator ruling guterres as well, stick around for that. they are new developments in again that deadly shooting targeting law enforcement in the small eastern kentucky down a third officer is now confirmed dead. they were shot thursday night after a man barricaded in this home, opened fire with a rifle. as the officers attempted to serve a domestic abuse warrant. local officials say the dead include two officers, one sherif
. tonight embattled uvalde police chief pete arradondo is on administrative leave as more inconsistencies in the initial police account are coming to light. according to the head of the texas department of public safety officers were equipped to take down the gunman three minutes after he entered the school, but they, of course, did not. surveillance images obtained by the austin american statesman also show responding officers had ballistic shields and rifles within 19 minutes of the shooting. but 77 minutes passed before officers acted to save a classroom full of children. officials originally said they were impeded by the classroom s locked doors. but now those doors may have been unlocked the entire time.