conference by colonel mcgraw earlier, and the truth is it s actually frightening. it s very disturbing. it is very disturbing. and jonathan, the incident commander treated it almost like a hostage situation rather than an active shooter. doesn t it run counter to everything officers are taught about how to respond to something like this? the other question i have is does it matter either way? why not charge in either way? jim, let me just first start off and be very blunt. this could turn out to be one of the worst police failures in modern u.s. history. and there needs to be accountability because the incident commander on that day made the wrong call. you know, we have to investigate why that call was made to deal with a barricaded subject as opposed to what is a well known, well trained policy of active shooter response, hostile intruder response by law
barbershop got a phone call from his wife inside and she said come get me. there s an active shooter. that officer helped rescue people. there s still accountability that needs to go on here, and the bottom line is cannot allow something like this to happen again. it certainly with chiefs of police, this is a senior person making this decision at this scene, and it was as the director here said, it was the wrong decision. the words are haunting. i can t imagine how they feel. grateful for your reporting on the scene. from where i m sitting, the corporal saying of course it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision. colonel, i m sorry. it was the wrong decision. there s no excuse for that. let s get perspective from two veterans of police work, a special agent peter lakoda along with anthony boricsteel.
that this is a barricade situation. you would have to believe with all of these young people calling in, saying, please, send the police, send the police, also telling them that we have students that are still alive in here, you would have anticipated that someone would have overruled that commander and went and made a breach of that door. tried to save lives. so the question that they need to answer, how many, how many lives could very well have been saved if the right decision was made where we were told by colonel mcgraw the wrong decision was made. when the 911 calls are released, there will be a new reckoning. it s not nearly as emotional or compelling for me to read them. i m going to read the timeline. 12:03, a female student from