. 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.
community needs to heal. we need the information so that we can move on. and as a legislator i needs the information to make sure this never happens again in another community. we had radios that didn t even function in the school. that is just uncalled-for in this day and age. i want to ask you about chief arradondo who s on administrative leave now. he spoke before a closed hearing yesterday. have you learned anything about what he said, the account he may have given? well, you know, those hearings were undertaken in the house of representatives in austin, and i m in the texas senate. our hearings were open to the public. we heard from mccraw yesterday and arradondo, i don t know if he was invited or not. we d have to ask the lieutenant governor. at the end of the day, you know, my concern in all of this is a lack of transparency. we if you don t have transparency, you start to lose elements of our democracy. there is no reason why the
are pointing the fingers at the other cops. at the end of the day this community needs to heal. we need the information so that we can move on. and as a legislator i needs the information to make sure this never happens again in another community. we had radios that didn t even function in the school. that is just uncalled-for in this day and age. i want to ask you about chief arradondo who s on administrative leave now. he spoke before a closed hearing yesterday. have you learned anything about what he said, the account he may have given? well, you know, those hearings were undertaken in the house of representatives in austin, and i m in the texas senate. our hearings were open to the public. we heard from mccraw yesterday and arradondo, i don t know if he was invited or not. we d have to ask the lieutenant governor. at the end of the day, you know, my concern in all of this is a lack of transparency. we if you don t have transparency, you start to lose elements of our democracy
the search for answers is why we re speaking to my next guest, texas state senator roland gutierrez is suing the department of public safety to release all records related to the shooting. thank you so much for being here, senator. thank you. can you give us a sense of why exactly you are seeing the department, what you are hoping to achieve? well, everything s been caught up in this so-called investigation, and yet the district attorney now says she s not investigating. and so therefore there should be no reason to release this information. we ve asked for this information legally since may 31st. the ten days have passed. we ve got response from the department of public safety. yesterday we heard there was 91 troopers in the area. at the 16-minute mark those officers started to show up. they went into the hallway and simply left. they weren t taking orders from arradondo or anyone else. i think that to say one group is
gutierrez is suing the department of public safety to release all records related to the shooting. thank you so much for being here, senator. thank you. can you give us a sense of why exactly you are seeing the department, what you are hoping to achieve? well, everything s been caught up in this so-called investigation, and yet the district attorney now says she s not investigating. and so therefore there should be no reason to release this information. we ve asked for this information legally since may 31st. the ten days have passed. we ve got response from the department of public safety. yesterday we heard there was 91 troopers in the area. at the 16-minute mark those officers started to show up. they went into the hallway and simply left. they weren t taking orders from arradondo or anyone else. i think that to say one group is at fault here is disingenuous. law enforcement as a whole failed including our own department of public safety.