job it is to protect them. three minutes would have made a difference. today, stunning new criticism of the police response in the uvalde mass shooting. three minutes after the subject entered the west building, there was sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject. shown in this surveillance footage showing 19 minutes after the gunman entered the school, three officers, two with rifles and one with a ballistic shield. depicting in full color the 77 minutes of horror children and teachers endured, according to the latest texas department of public safety timeline, at 11:33 a.m., within 24 seconds of entering robb elementary, the gunman started shooting. just three minutes later, 11 officers also entered. two with rifles. 19 minutes in, the first ballistic shield arrives.
law enforcement response an abject failure. the sending you details, as we get the first chilling images from inside the school that day. the surveillance photo you re looking at shows cops with rifles and ballistic shields in the hallway, but they waited another hour to storm the classroom. this photo was taken at the same time, but now you see it is a different angle and it also highlights that officers were ready to go in, but didn t. at the end of those 77 minutes, 19 students, including the daughter of one of the officers stationed there in the hallway, and two teachers, where dead or dying. others sustained serious physical injuries. the emotional and psychological harm will be lifelong for survivors and their families. it was the deadliest school shooting in texas history. jimmy, in stark contrast to those officers that waited over 90 minutes until he was actually
obtained by the austin american statesman. by 12:21, officers with four ballistic shields heard more gunshots, yet, police waited, even as 911 calls were coming from at least two students inside the classrooms. the officers had weapons. the children had none. the sphersz had body armor. the children had none. do you have anything to say to the parents. reporter: arredondo, who was also in austin at a closed door hearing, tried to dodge cameras and tough questions. arredondo has claimed that officers were looking for keys to open the classroom door, but mccraw stunned lawmakers when he said the door didn t lock from the inside, and no one tried to open them. i don t believe, based on the information we have right now, that that door was ever secured. in fact, i have great reason to believe it wasn t secured. how about trying the door and seeing if it s unlocked? reporter: as more information comes to light, uvalde s grief has turned to anger. at last night s school board meeti
he told the san antonio state news the head of the state police, stephen mccraw told him that as many as 13 state police officers were told inside the school during the hour when the police did nothing to save children and teachers who were bleeding to death on the floors of their classrooms. quote, he told me, there was enough people and equipment to breach the door gutierrez said, even as officers continued to wait for more than an hour and some of the children inside the two locked classrooms called 9-1-1 for help. gutierrez said, officers in the hallway at one point had as many as three ballistic shields before finally breaching the door to the classrooms. there was enough material in that room to stop this threat he said. and it didn t happen. executive editor of the san antonio express news described the harassment that reporters in uvalde are facing from police. quote, they keep threatening to arrest us, but so far they haven t. it s been really hostile. there is the concern t
officers were told inside the school during the hour when the police did nothing to save children and teachers who were bleeding on the floors of their classrooms. quote, he told me, there was enough people and equipment to breach the door gutierrez said, even as officers continue to wait for more than an hour and some of the children inside the two locked classrooms called 9-1-1 for help. gutierrez said officers in the hallway at one point had as many as three ballistic shields before finally breaching the door to the classrooms. there was enough material in that room to stop this threat he said. and it didn t happen. executive editor of the san antonio express news described the harassment that reporters and uvalde are facing from police. quote, they keep threatening to arrest us, but so far they haven t. it s been really hostile. there is the concern that they are violating our constitutional rights because we have the right to news gather. i believe that this is