The NAACP released a statement following recent allegations by the FCPS district and Dunbar High School staff members regarding Principal Marlon Ball being placed on administrative leave.
most basic responsibility. the authors writing, they failed to prioritize saving the lives of victims over their own safety. several officers in the hallway or in that building knew or should have known there was dying in that classroom. and they should have done more, acted with urgency. reporter: family members were hoping for more than a verbal dressing down. but what they re saying we already knew it. they were powered. reporter: some action was taken right away. the city s mayor announcing right before this meeting that the acting chief of uvalde police department, mary owno pargas on leave. any offer who did learn about 911 phone calls coming in from rooms 111 and 112 including pargas was shifting to an active shooter response. there is windows into heroism. students being pulled out of the building and this heartbreaking
made and what you see in the video is so many different law enforcement agencies, state, federal, that also respond to the scene and also are not decisive in ending it. a lot of the focus about reporting agencies, what about law enforcement agencies, what is their reasoning for not acting more decisively to end the shooting any sooner than the 77 minutes it took? is there any talk right now about accountability for these officers? any talk about an investigation leading to charges, either civil or criminal? there s not talk about civil or criminal charges really. certainly about how to reform going forward. the school district has placed chief arredondo on leave.
get in, there s a lot that s still unanswered here and i would point out there s significant state local tension that ha erupted. the texas rangers are putting the blame and scapegoating the local folks and you know, denying their own responsibility and of course, tonight, the uvalde school district placed the school s police chief on leave. let me play, actually, this is the mayor who i thought was oddly quiet and it was don mclachlan. this was last night. take a look. colonel mcgraw has continued to whether you want to call it lie, leaked excuse me, liked, leaked, mistaken information in order to distance his own troopers and rangers from the response every briefing he leaves out the number of his own officers and rangers that were on scene that day. colonel mcgraw has an agenda and it s not to give a full report