realizing now that children his own age were murdered inside their classroom, inside their school, he s trying to process it all. and he saw my own anxiety this morning and i felt guilty for even causing a little bit of his own. and he actually said to me, don t worry, mommy. i will be home tonight. he said, i make a promise to myself every day that i will make it home at night. now, these should not be the promises any child has to make. not in a nation where our promises to keep them safe have not been kept. i remember when mr. rogers was trying to comfort kids like me by telling them when you see scary things, look for the helpers. look for the helpers. okay, well, as far as we know, the helpers stood in the hallway. the helpers heard shots even after they believed it was a barricade and not an active shooter, and when the helpers aren t being tight hp lipped, they re offering changing narratives but i m still going to look to these helpers. but this time it will be for an
we showed you this at the top of the broadcast. these are the names and teachers of the 19 children killed and the two teachers. the news continue with laura coates. thank you, anderson, capitol h chilling photographs. i have to be honest with you that i had a panic attack when i dropped off my son this morning. wondering which would be the pic picture or the moment, trying to explain what this boy may mean to me. i resented that they would have to. my nine-year-old son who s realizing now that children his own age were murdered inside their school. he s trying to process it all. he saw my own anxiety this morning and i felt guilty for causing a little bit of this. he said to me, don t worry, mommy, i will be home tonight. these should not be promises any child should be made. you see i remember when mr. rogers trying to comfort kids like me when telling them when you see scary things, look for the helpers. look for the helpers. as far as we know, the helpers stood in
active shooter? why the distinction? sure. great question, laura. so an active shooter, as most people are familiar now, is a situation where you have someone shooting in a public space that s occupied by many people. that s clearly the situation we had here. a barricaded subject is when you have usually one person who is armed and has blocked themselves off in a closed space. it is essentially resisting law enforcement. sometimes you have a barricaded subject who is also holding hostages. but even in a barricaded subject situation, which is not what we had in uvalde, if that person is holding hostages, you always have a tactical team present and ready to go in, as soon as you sense that that barricaded subject presents a threat to those hostages. so even under that sort of thinking, it s incomprehensible that the leadership over that critical incident in texas made
store inside of the restaurant. so you have to understand, people think that is normal and acceptable that you could have somebody walking in, an 18-year-old, and buy a military style tactical weapon. but that s exactly what occurred. one could think about that notion, though, and on the one hand, say look, it s so normalized. it s so much a part of the fabric of the community that people don t expect there to be a violent outcome from the proliferation or the pervasiveness of these weapons. did the idea that this might have happened, did that shock you, even in spite of the prevalence of the guns and the relative ease of just how much it was a part of the community? unfortunately, no, it didn t really because violence has always been extremely high in uvalde s history.
at that crucial minute. i think there are questions to be asked that go much higher, that go to the chief of police. the police system is the enforcement system is highly fragmented in uvalde. you have only six policemen that cover all of the schools. you have a very large police department with an elected official as chief of police. you have a sheriff s department with elected sheriffs. then you have the department of public safety, which has been brought in en masse recently by governor abbott. as part of his lone star efforts. and then you have the customs and border patrol, a huge presence of the customs and border patrol. so that s why you saw that there was a huge reaction of legal enforcement coming to the school and perhaps accounting for a lot of fragmentation in the decision making process about when to go into the school and rescue the children. we ll see if that fragmentation is the source, but