of emotional disorder and was seeking treatment and that law enforcement was unaware of this and had law enforcement been aware of the shooter and of the shooters, background seeking treatment that they would have been able to somehow intervene, but given that the state does not have red flag laws would that have even been possible? it s unlikely if they do not have red flag laws. here s what we know we have a challenge with too many criminals, folks with mental health and juveniles having access to weapons. executive action does not mean inability to do something. so that is some of the discussions that we need to hold our elected officials accountable for there s been too many of these going on too much violence and too many people that think this is the right course of action. when they re feel agreed. so there is action our leaders can take and we need to hold them accountable to do that. joshua, we know investigators are still piecing together a motive. can you describe what that
confident. we witnessed that in the video, the fbi working in concert and this is what we should expect of our law enforcement professionals to put this together to tell the story of what had happened and what caused this. and also as an educational opportunity. when there is something in somebody in in their life that is grieving and is going to potentially conduct violence. folks need to report that to the officials. and we saw that in a text that happened to one of her friends yesterday. yeah and from what? we re hearing from the shooter s parents that they weren t even aware of the number of firearms that their daughter had possessed. joshua school. thank you so much. now let s bring in cnn, senior crime and justice correspondent amount procure peso shimon. no doubt this is night and day, sort of textbook example of how police should respond to a school shooting. we saw it in their body cam video going room to room there and really putting their lives on the lines looking not knowi
she just sort of went into what kind of kid this was saying to watch for the past nine years has been a gift and privilege, she said she was incredibly smart, feisty enough to keep up with her three brothers in my four boys love for life that kept her smiling and running and jumping and playing and always on the go, of course. 39 year olds were killed on monday morning inside that school. the city of nashville will remember all six of those victims at a citywide vigil tonight in attendance. we expect there to be religious leaders, city dignitary state leaders as well as singer sheryl crow and the first lady of the united states, dr jill biden. she will also be in attendance tonight in what is expected to be very somber. somber evening here in nashville. diane gallagher. thank you so much for that reporting. let s discuss all of these details further. we ve got joshua school with us. he served as the fbi executive assistant director for intelligence. he s now the president of the wave l
weapons. they were under the impression that was when she sold the one weapon that she did not own any more. alright, so wolf late this afternoon, cnn was able to confirm that, according to some written statements that were left behind by the shooter mall near the school was apparently referenced as a possible target as well as at least one other area, not including the school here behind me so painful to see that body camera video of those police officers charging through an elementary school and elementary school here in the united states. carlos suarez, thank you very much for that report. let s get some more in all of this. joining us now. joshua school, former fbi executive assistant director for intelligence, cnn, law enforcement analyst and former secret service agent, jonathan wackrow, and cnn contributor abbott dominique clayton, who reports on gun violence for the guardian. jonathan i ll start with you. what do you make of the police response in this really dramatic
have a role in the community to protect and serve, not to suppress and conquer. that is necessary sometimes. the other thing that we have got to be very careful of is we talk about alternative call handling, we should be sending social workers, we should be diverting these calls out to another system. that system is not properly funded and so we have got to be careful that we build that up before we start diverting people. we did this in the 70s with mental health system and we said we re not gonna lock people into state hospitals, we are going to send them back into the community for treatment. that system never rose to the occasion and that is why we are in the mess that we are in right now, with mental health issues. joshua, i will give you the last word on this. what are those incentives that the sheriff speaks of what would that look like? with that something be the kind of carrot that would provoke change? is it financial? it certainly financial. when you look at law