many as 19 officers were in the school hallway. a student inside the class with the shooter calls 911, whispering on the phone. the tactical unit requested by those officers arrived. that s when the student called back and said there are kids still alive. 12:16, 911 operators know there are kids alive in the room. the shooter fires again. at one point 19 officers in the building according to dps. 20 minutes later, another 911 call begging police to get there now. 12:50, a tactical team breached the door to get inside and killed the gunman. an hour and 17 minutes from when police entered to the school to when police entered the room. why did it take so long to get inside that classroom where children were waiting for safety? it was a 40-minute gap. if the 911 operators were aware that children were alive in that classroom, why weren t officers notified of that. and if that s the case, why didn t anybody take action. that s the question. again, i ll go back to the answer for
the on-scene commander was saying. that s another thing to be row revealed here. one thing we learned from the young people who survived the shooting is a couple of things. number one, all the things that went wrong here, the school resource officer not seeing ramos because he was hiding when he drove by, the fact that the door to the school was propped open, the fact that the classroom door was unlocked, that s a violation of the county s own school safety protocol that said classroom doors have to be locked at all times for the very purpose of keeping shooters outside of the classroom. the third thing we learned from some of the survivors is that the door to the classroom did have a window and some of these survivors said that ramos shot the window out. and i think even if you can t breach the door, you can t open the door, the question is why not fire through the window in the classroom in, in hallway, and why not fire through the