realizing now that children his own age were murdered inside their classroom, inside their school, he s trying to process it all. and he saw my own anxiety this morning and i felt guilty for even causing a little bit of his own. and he actually said to me, don t worry, mommy. i will be home tonight. he said, i make a promise to myself every day that i will make it home at night. now, these should not be the promises any child has to make. not in a nation where our promises to keep them safe have not been kept. i remember when mr. rogers was trying to comfort kids like me by telling them when you see scary things, look for the helpers. look for the helpers. okay, well, as far as we know, the helpers stood in the hallway. the helpers heard shots even after they believed it was a barricade and not an active shooter, and when the helpers aren t being tight hp lipped, they re offering changing narratives but i m still going to look to these helpers. but this time it will be for an
answers from the uvalde police? even one week later. questions like, why did it take so long to take down a mass murderer as children were begging for help? and why did the police chief in charge of this school district order his officers to hold off on entering these classrooms and why won t that chief, pete arredondo, answer the key questions himself? i mean, he was the incident commander and he won t answer these questions from reporters. in fact, he won t even answer them from the texas rangers. hasn t talked to them apparently in two days. won t respond to the rangers request for even a follow-up interview. why not? we re going to examine the helpers. and the 78 minutes between the time this murderer entered the school and when he was killed. were the 19 officers inside robb elementary aware there were 911 calls coming from children