trying to make sense of something that is so unimaginable. the only way that they can really go about the process of doing that, is with a full accounting, a minute by minute accounting, of what happened that day. the other thing that those people and the people of texas deserve is our john doe s resignation, that is according to the texas own approach to school shooting situations. which says, as first responders, we must recognize the innocent life must be defended, a first responder on whaling to place the lives of the innocent above their own safety should consider another career field. that is a in effect direct order by the roles and customs of police work in texas for our arredondo to seek another
career field. contrary, was your reporting was the hottest news we had for this hour. as recently as a half hour ago. and that is the story of the backdoor of that school. which authorities try to tell us, was left open by a teacher. the police approach to this from the start, appeared to be blame a teacher concentrate blame on a teacher, for leaving a door open, and try to ignore how many minutes those police were there without doing anything. what is the new information you have to vote today on us? so basically the commander, director of the texas department of public safety might have left the impression that the teacher just left prop the door open, and left it open and so, during my reporting compress the lawyer representing the teacher, and they are adamant that the teacher had prompted open, but
take some time. it will be one we ll be following closely. as you point out in your article critically, this training states and i want to read this out, a first responders unwilling to place the lives of the innocent of their own safety should consider another career field. what needs to happen going forward to make sure that future police understand their role in these active shooting situations and that the lives of the incident comes first. if they can t accept that or not willing to do that, they should not be taking that job. it is something that we have seen a lot. it was a training that emerged, it was no longer a situation where police would stage a scene or secure a scene and get su s.w.a.t. team position go in and
it was roaming the hallways and sort of situational roleplaying with a bunch of different agencies trying to assess how they would best confront a gunman. and that s what the training teaches them to do is to confront the gunman. there are a lot of questions still right now about why they made that call. the incident commander has reportedly said to the state police that they were treating it as a barricaded subject situation or a hostage-type situation where they felt like they needed more time to assess before they went in to take out the gunman. and, as you point out in your article, critically this training states, and i want to read this out, in a first responder unwilling to place the lives of the innocent above their own safety should consider another career field. so, what needs to happen going forward to make sure that future police understand their role in these active shooting situations and that the lives of the
years ago, after santa fe, which was a priority of life, listed in very clear terms in this document number one, civilians, number two, law enforcement and respondents, number three, offenders. there is a hierarchy. you are also talking about messages of stop the killing. there is the list that you see on the screen there. officers first priority is to is to confront him. efforts responder unwilling to put the lives to place the lives of the innocent above their own safety should consider another career field. just to pump the brakes for a second, it is important to know. i talked to some groups would school training, they said to not rush to judgment right now before we understand more about why the officers were not acting immediately. one thing is very clear, the guidance from the state says in no uncertain terms, if there is a threat and kids lives can be saved, even if this person is