trust the authorities who they are looking to tell them what happened. sadly i ve covered so many of these shootings now, and for years now, you know. i ve never seen anything like this before. this is one of the worst responses by a law enforcement agency in a very, very long time and perhaps one of the worst and has really hurt law enforcement police departments all across the country, and the blame game and the finger-pointing doesn t help because these agencies should be working together, should be discussing together what what went wrong and working together to take responsibility for what happened, and we didn t see that here. almost immediately when they finally started admitting that mistakes were made by law enforcement, the blame game goes right to the smallest police department with probably the least experienced officers who don t really have real life situation experiences. they take that oath to
is exactly what happened here. spokesman for the texas department of public safety hours after victor s news conference another dps official seems to give yet another explanation as to why police did not follow active shooter protocols. don t best practices, lieutenant, call for overs to disable a shooter as quickly as possible regardless of how many officers are actually on site? correct. the active shooter situation. you want to stop the killing and want to preserve life and also one thing that, of course, the american people need to understand is that officers are making entry into this building. they do not know where the gunman is. they are hearing gunshots. they are receiving gunshots. at that point if they proceeded any further not knowing where the suspect was at, they could have been killed and at that point that gunman would have had an opportunity to kill other people inside that school.
risky dangerous position for law enforcement to be in, and that is part of the job. you are expected to put yourself into that risk, into that danger to take a chance at saving the lives of oh, and that didn t happen here. you know, it s always great to the wait, you know, to have more equipment and bigger guns and more people but, you know, you lose time waiting for those resources, precious time in which your innocent victims may be losing their lives, and that is exactly what happened here. spokesman for the texas department of public safety hours after victor es: s news conference another dps official seems to give yet another explanation as toss why police did not follow active shooter protocols. don t best practices, lieutenant, call for overs to disable a shooter as quickly as possible regardless of how many officers are actually on site? correct. the active shooter situation.
investigating the response to the shooting agrees with his last statement. in their report they say any of the state or federal law enforcement personnel on site that day could have taken charge writing, quote, these local officials were not the only ones expected to supply the leadership needed during this tragedy. hundreds of responders from numerous law enforcement agencies, many of whom were better trained and better equipped than the school district police, quickly arrived on the scene. so why did officials from dps which is responsible for statewide law enforcement keep singling out uvalde school district police chief pete arredondo? you know, at this point i don t know what to believe or what not to believe. reporter: don mclaughlin is mayor of uvalde. he thinks the blame for the police response belongs to all the agencies who were there, not just the uvalde school district police. you re hearing all kinds of stories now coming from one place, dps. yeah. kind of contro
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