being careful about what body camera and surveillance video w ws we show you. we want to be respectful of the grieving families. some videos are difficult to watch given knowing what is happening off screen. there is a lot to learn but worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answers from law enforcement officials in the hours and days and months after this massacre, it s likely we wouldn t know as much as we do about what really happened in uvalde:breaking news out of texas police on the scene of a deadly shooting at an elementariry school. difficult images. for hours after the shootings in uvalde, there is chaos around the school and few details. we ve not been give b or heard reporting on a timeline. is it clear how quickly police were able to get on the scene. relatively quickly but not fast enough. i don t want to go beyond that because we don t know how quickly agents were able to respond to the scene. there s a lot of fac
universally accepted active shooter protocols. they allowed the gunman to remain in the classroom for more than 70 minutes. there were children still alive inside, one of whom repeatedly called 911 for help. there were wounded teachers fighting for their lives. tonight we take a close look at the false and at times misleading information initially provided by texas law enforcement and public officials to families and reporters about the police response. throughout this hour, we are being careful about what body camera and surveillance videos we show you. there will be no images of violence or sounds of gunfire. we want to be respectful of all those grieving in uvalde. some of the videos though are difficult to watch given what we know was happening elsewhere on screen. there s still a lot to learn, but it s worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answered from law enforcement officials in the hours and the days and months after this massac
he never considered himself to be in charge on the day of the shootings and never instructed anyone not to try to breach the building. on june 21st dps releases a comprehensive timeline of events and director steve mccraw testifies before the texas state senate. he continues pointing to chief arredondo as the one in charge that day. i don t think the chief in any way is a bad person at all. i just think he made some bad decisions. the problem is that he may not want to be the incident commander, but if you issue commands and you re the ranking official, you end up being the incident commander. let s say the dps captain shows up into a situation and decides he s going to exercise control, you know, first of all, he doesn t have the information, and you know what, he may not be as sharp as the on scene commander that s there in addition to not having the information so i m reluctant to encourage or even think of any situation where you would want some level hierarchy where a
official, you end up being the incident commander. let s say the dps captain shows up into a situation and decides he s going to exercise control, you know, first of all, he doesn t have the information, and you know what, he may not be as sharp as the on-seen commander that s there in addition to not having the information so i m reluctant to encourage or even think of any situation where you would want some level hierarchy where a larger police department gets to come in and take over. under further questioning, mccraw later explains confronting an active shooter should teague precedence over the chain of command. bottom line, there s always someone who takes the lead. it may not have to be the chief and frankly i mentioned it before. you can delegate to another agency but you can delegate is down to even a sergeant oar lead officer or someone with tactical expertise so there s always someone that says let s go, line up, stack up and someone is at the front door. a texas house