he s also on his phone. he says his radio wasn t working, but he was on his phone. why wasn t he getting that information from the 9-1-1 calls that children were inside there still alive? we saw that from the sergeant. he got a radio call or some information about the 9-1-1 call. why wasn t that passed to arradondo? so, i agree with cheryl, i think that arradondo is really facing some potential liability here. now, ryan, usually the police are not criminally charged in these cases. there is no constitutional duty for police to go in and stop harm or violence. they don t have to act. they re not liable for that. however, because we re having so many of these shootings, we re seeing lawsuits being filed trying to hold people accountable. we saw that the prosecutor did file against the school resource officer saying you re not just a police officer, you have a caretaker duty here, which elevates your role. so we are going to hold you negligent because you were supposed to be in charge of
lieutenant of the uvalde police department based on what happened because he was there at the scene. we need to see more of that. we need to see more administrative liability, which is essentially where each agency, there were eight there, goes through their protocols and rules, and then goes through the actions of each one of their agents or deputies that were there on the scene and see if they followed their protocols or rules or not. and we all know that since columbine, the protocol is to go and stop the shooter. and this was clearly not done here. as far as this breaking video, ryan, i think it s really interesting from what cheryl said. we heard arradondo saying i wasn t in charge, i didn t consider myself to be the incident commander. however, you see from that video he is the one that is all over that door. he is the one right there where you would be breaching the crime scene to go to the shooter. and he is the one calling the shots.
ryan, it paints the chaos of the day. we ve spent the day reporting about the investigative committee s findings. and a lot of it talks about the chaos of the day, the lack of command. and what we see in this newly body camera footage that we obtained from the mayor, the mayor here of the city of uvalde releasing it to us first. what you see here is a picture of officers really not in control. you have officers outside of the school trying to assess the situation, and then you have officers inside. and specifically for the first time, we ve seen that video, ryan, of the inside of the school, the hallway of the school. for the first time now on this body camera footage, we see pete arradondo, the school police chief. we get to see him in action as he s talking to the officers, as he s near the door where the classroom is. and some of the decisionmaking
of keys trying and failing to make entry into a classroom near where the gunman is barricaded, eventually handing the keys off to another officer who does make entry. more heavily armored officers arrive, but no one gives the order to begin. then suddenly a new round of gun fire. [ sound of gunfire ] but after those gunshots, arradondo again tries to talk with the shooter. can you hear me, sir? reporter: and, again, minutes later sir, if you can hear me, please put your firearm down, sir. we don t want anybody else hurt. we re trying to get them out. reporter: after no response, police still stand around without much urgency. over the course of the next 30 minutes we see more officers arrive. the video obtained by cnn cuts out moments before police breach the classroom and kill the shooter at 12:51 local time. by then, many young innocent children and their two teachers