as you. can when there s an active shooter, the rules change and by the way, with texas in braces active shooter training, active shooter certification, and that doctrine requires officers, we don t care what agency or from, you don t have to have a leader on the scene, people across the, country and a number of chief across the country today and we are just all shaking our head. every officer lines up, stacks up, where those rounds are being fired on keep shooting until the subject is dead. earlier today, stephen mccraw the head of the texas department of public safety held a tense press conference providing more information but the fatal shooting at robb elementary in one uvalde, texas on tuesday. those details in the constantly evolving explanations of the police response on tuesday, may reporters and all of us have more questions than answers. why did the school district police chief decided there was no longer an active shooter situation? why was the school district
as you. can when there s an active shooter, the rules change and by the way, with texas in braces active shooter training, active shooter certification, and that doctrine requires officers, we don t care what agency or from, you don t have to have a leader on the scene, every officer lines up, stacks up, where those rounds are being fired on keep shooting until the subject is dead. earlier today, stephen mccraw the head of the texas department of public safety held a tense press conference providing more information but the fatal shooting at robb elementary in one uvalde, texas on tuesday. those details in the constantly evolving explanations of the police response on tuesday, may reporters and all of us have more questions than answers. why did the school vic decided there was no longer an active shooter situation, why was the school district police chief in charge of all of these
knew how to deal with this. you have an incident commander with 30 years in law enforcement allegedly who s directing officers not to follow their guidelines. maybe officers who were from another agency ultimately on scene decided that they didn t have the command structure there to go over the directives of this police chief, and so someone, many someones need to be held accountable. and while we haven t heard from this police chief. i promise you he s somewhere right now putting his retirement papers in with 30 years on. there needs to be accountability. it needs to start at the top, governor abbott all the way down to that school resource officer and the 19 who stood outside that door and did nothing for almost an hour. i just want to let you and our viewers know we ve reached out to the school district police chief multiple times to ask questions. he so far has not replied.
the moment police force entered the school to the moment the shooter was killed, that spanned one hour and 16 minutes. we got word that there were phone calls coming in from inside of the school, 91 calls from teachers, from students saying please help us. one student saying there are 8-9 students live in the classroom. we just heard the dps director strongly quicker, criticized the decision by the local police chief, the stool though my school district police chief in uvalde calling at his decision the wrong decision and there is no excuse for it to not reach that room. he said that commander decided to treat this as a barricade situation rather than an active shooter situation. in hindsight, they now know there were children in the classroom, potentially still alive. who needed help. there were 911 calls coming from inside the school as gunshots were still ringing out while there were 19 police officers in the hallway waiting for a