pay, with the pay, with the benefit of pay for the benefit of hindsight., they were standby, of standby,. hey, standby. hey, standby. right. i got it. i got got it. okay, for the benefit ofin hindsight where i m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. io the wrong decision is breaking tonight . hearts and uvalda s, texas breaking all over again as we get a clearer picture of what happened before and during the horrific massacre at a texas elementaryma school. a public safety official says a teacher propped open a locked door and later the commanding officer at the scene madean a series of tragic miscalculations even as desperate children called 911. one repeated and begged police to come help them. those revelations came on a stunning friday afternoon news briefing detailing a number of that are being seriously scrutinized tonight . let s bring in correspondent jeff paul with the very latest live from uvalda, texas tonight . hello, jeff. shannon, tonight lawrc
on the totality of the information that was coming in both through the 911 calls, which we re still not sure if those were making it to the scene and the sounds ofns gunshots that were going on . so what we had here were authorities being held back bynt the incident commander, which reports are were c c the local chief of police from involved a police department and at some point in time the bortac unit from from cbp th said, you know what , forget it. we re going in . you re reading us wrong. g we re going to respond. so you know, this was basically a failure of response fromst the start here and reading this as a barricadear situation as opposed to active shooter is a big time change in tactics where the barricade situation you re waiting for negotiatorsit and swat teamsin and alle the other law enforcement luxuries that come with it, whereas an activeotlu shooter, u go right in as soon as possible
and you neutralize that threat and that obviously did notdi happend . so this brings me tome this question because new york times is reporting on whatsin was happening there and says this at two monthse ago, the evolving school district hosted an active shooter training for officers tr using instructional materials that say the priority for responding officersuc is to stop the killing by confronting the attacker. so have you heard any explanation in your time therero on the ground? because from be the other accous i ve been reading too, they saye that you ve got a swat teamld whiche actually a couple of years ago went to all the local businesses and school specificallynd to try and figuro out the layouts were neverutn on scene. i don t know if that s. accurate or not, but that s what we ve been told so far that swat team the trained for this wasn t their right. and that s the big question is that why was everything so, so hectic and why did all this thei training not actually come to f
department held the borderat ro patrol agents back from going. inside tonight . the headline from nbc news is this federal agents who went to rob elementary school and all the texas on tuesday to confront the gunman who killed 19 children . we re told by local police to wait and not enter the schooln and then decided after about a half an hour to ignore that initial guidance and find the shooter, say to senior federal law enforcement officials, charles, how does this work when you get to s the scene you ve got multiple agencies on site, but these border patrol guys said i basically we re doing it. don t try to stop us . yeah, listen, i mean, you this situation just gets worse and worse with, with every minute that goes by fromen the propped open door that allowed the shooter toe get inside the school to the delay police response and the misreadingpo of the entire situation of what was going on . this was from the start and should have been assumed an active shooter situation based
townhall.com senior writer and author, a fiery but mostly peaceful puleo rosoff and a man with years of experience specializing in protecting people. sentinel security solutions ceo charles marino. welcome back to both off you. thank you . let me ask you because you ve been there and beent on the ground with the community as we get more and more information, some of a it vastly different than what we were first told. what is the sensefirs the feelig there in the community? i mean, a i ve got to imagine the overriding issue is just immense grief. there. absolutely. and you know, when i first arrived on the scene, the tuesday, you know, it was very evident the death toll and we knew that the officers were on the scene withint a short amount of time. and so thinking about that on tuesday didn t make a whole lot of sensen because i had assume and a lot ofpe people maybe had assumed that the police were following the standard operating procedure in an active shooter, which is you go in ,