25 minutes since police first entered the building. more than 12 minutes later we get our first glimpse of chief arradondo in the hallway of robb elementary. you can hear him pleading with the gunman to give up, but seemingly unaware that children may still be inside the classroom. let me know if there s any kids in there or anything? this could be peaceful. would you tell me your name, anything i inside to know, please? reporter: moments later a critical piece of the puzzle from the camera of officer mend o mendoza. you have a child on the line. what was that? it s going to be room 112. he is in a room full of victims at this moment. reporter: and yet even with that information, six minutes go by without any sort of response. then we see arradondo with a set
release this information. but he feels that in fairness to the family and fairness to this investigation that he needed to be released. and the other thing we should note for viewer that s we did not publish this, we did not air this video until we knew that family members had been made aware that this video existed and that the mayor said that he would be releasing it. so we took a lot of that into consideration of course. this video takes people inside the halls of that school. it shows the police response and just how terrible it was how some of the decisionmaking was very confusing. you had officers outside who really didn t know what was going on inside. there was no command structure. there was no one making decisions. and it was kind of a free for all. and i think this video illustrates that. it also shows that officers were getting kids out of the other classrooms, of course, and rescuing those kids. but significant of course in all of this is the fact that this
we have it contained. he s going to be on the building on the west side of the property. careful with the windows facing east. reporter: minutes later coronado tells dispatch what he believes is happening, that the gunman is in one of the school s offices, not a classroom. subject in the school on the west side of the building. he s contained we got multiple officers inside the building at this time. we believe he s barricaded in one of the offices. reporter: but as the minutes continue to tick by, the urgency first seen by the initial response fades away. instead uvalde police officers are seen hunkering down waiting for more backup. critical moments pass by at a time children were still alive in the classroom. at one point you can hear sergeant coronado asking for
pargas on administrative leave and conduct a full internal investigation. however, it is imperative that each agency on site at robb school that day commits to the same process and investigation of highest ranking on-site officers actions that day. mayor, you have a lot of families who are saying not enough is being done to hold the officers accountable. what do you say to those familys? i know you only have jurisdiction over the city s police department, but a lot of families are calling for all officers involved to be again, two things i will tell you. one, until this video is released, and again, i want to say while you were here, the way you released that video, that was wrong to blindside those families. [ inaudible ] because, sir, that wasn t the proper place sir, i don t care if it has
ryan, it paints the chaos of the day. we ve spent the day reporting about the investigative committee s findings. and a lot of it talks about the chaos of the day, the lack of command. and what we see in this newly body camera footage that we obtained from the mayor, the mayor here of the city of uvalde releasing it to us first. what you see here is a picture of officers really not in control. you have officers outside of the school trying to assess the situation, and then you have officers inside. and specifically for the first time, we ve seen that video, ryan, of the inside of the school, the hallway of the school. for the first time now on this body camera footage, we see pete arradondo, the school police chief. we get to see him in action as he s talking to the officers, as he s near the door where the classroom is. and some of the decisionmaking