Ever since the Uvalde elementary school shooting left 19 students and two teachers dead, blame for the delayed response has been thrust on local law enforcement.
with vacation bible school and other activities for children. and so i can t say enough about that. well, that takes hope. that takes strength. ronald garza, we really wish you the best. thank you, jim. you just heard him say other agencies, other commanders could have taken action earlier. later this hour, we ll be joined by the president of the texas police chiefs association. we ll get his take on what should have happened, who should have stepped in and when from all those nearly 400 officers on scene. plus, steve bannon is on trial today. he s facing contempt of congress charges for refusing to respond to a subpoena from the january 6th committee. does he have a potential case? and cnn speaks to a texas mom forced to get three different ultrasounds before she could get treatment for a miscarriage. the real world consequences of restrictive new abortion laws. it s not just happening in one
liability. but i think the families, i think the families would the grieving parents and families would like to hear that. i m sure they would. if i were in their situation with, i would like to hear an apology. yeah, we ll see a sincere apology. yep. we ll see if that wins out or concerns about facing consequences. ronald garza, as i always say when i speak to folks like you in the community, i m sorry for what you re going through and i wish you the best as you and the others there try to recover. jim, i know our time is limited, but i would like to say that our community is 100% behind the grieving parents and families. we re united in supporting them. and, you know, the business sector, the private sector, support services and i can t say enough about our wonderful churches, are moving forward
teachers. what is the most important thing you learned reading this report? well, it pretty much confirmed all the things that we had feared about what had actually took place, is that the officers, despite information that was very clear to the first responders as well as others, the additional information they got from 911 calls and just from hearing things failed to act. they failed to move forward in the threat of danger, to secure the scene, to take care of the attacker and to save as many kids as possible. you know, there s i think the report correctly stated it was a systematic failure. there were a lot of things that went wrong, a lot of things that we have a lot of explaining to do, a lot of things to justify to the community of uvalde. but we as a profession did not do well that day. we just heard in jim s interview with ronald garza, the county commissioner in uvalde, saying other agencies, other commanders could have taken action sooner. is there any lesson in that fo