nbc has obtained a copy has already condemned systemic failures and egregious poor decision making on the part of nearly 400 local state and federal law enforcement officers on the scene. at robb elementary on may 4th. let s go to nbc news correspondent, priscilla thompson. priscilla, you ve been in uvalde speaking with parents and anticipating where we may hear from this report that they just released. what are some of the big takeaway so far? one of the things that you already mentioned, the sheer amount of the police presence that was here on that day. we re talking about hundreds of officers from nearly two dozen agencies, from federal, state and local law enforcement. the majority of them where texas department of public safety and border patrol. we are also learning about what happened in regards to the incident command. there was a lot of talk over the past several weeks over the school police chief, pete arredondo, being the incident commander. what is clear in this r
they are hiding behind this systemic failure. listen, we can sum the report up. law enforcement failed miserably. it quite probably cost lives of several of the individuals, these children and the teachers that were killed there in uvalde. the law enforcement was fully trained, equipped and still remained paralyzed at the scene because they lacked affective leadership, without a doubt, they lacked courage and good old-fashioned common sense. also, what is important is an attempt to further lionized law enforcement, the police community, and to the profession. politicians reflexive leap misled, covered up and some would say lied about some important information in regards to what happened there in uvalde. it really is a failure. absolutely. and to have no villains, well, it disturbs me at best.