texas attacked an elementary school and killed 21 people. 19 of them, children. and while it is common for new details to emerge after the so-called fog of war lifts, the basic facts of the police response to this particular shooting have changed. and then, they changed again. and today, officials try yet again, to lay out a timeline of the response to this attack, to an increasingly skeptical press corps and public. and this version, the one we heard today, painted a shocking picture of what now looks to be an extraordinarily inept police response, that allowed the government to be locked in a classroom with children, who were still alive for more than an hour! here s today s version of what happened on tuesday, may 24th. at 11:27 am, central time, a teacher at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, walks out of the building, and props the door open. and that teacher sees a truck crash behind the school. by 11:28 am, she is rushed back into the school to get her phone, lea
tragedy. ask the questions. those politicians don t want to answer. the running the clock. don t let them do it. love has to be the answer. decency must rule. nicole hawk lay, matthew dowd, thank you for joining me on this important friday night, at the end of a very heavy week. and from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of monday. be good. us i will see you and while it is common for new details to emerge after the so-called fog of war lifts, the basic facts of the police response to this particular shooting have changed. and then, they changed again. and today, officials try yet again, to lay out a timeline of the response to this attack, to an increasingly skeptical press corps and public. and this version, the one we heard today, painted a shocking picture of what now looks to be an extraordinarily inept police response, that allowed the government to be locked in a classroom with children,
for instance, officials initially said an officer had engaged the gunman before he entered the school. but now we re being told that is not true. in fact, the shooter was outside the school for about 12 minutes before entering through an unlocked door. bill: all that adding to the confusion after police waited for about an hour before entering the classroom and killing the shooter. texas dps on the front lines of the investigation. the shifting timelines, the shifting facts were the focus of a contentious news conference that took place yesterday afternoon that went a bit like this. it was reported that a school district police officer confronted the suspect that was making entry. not accurate. he walked in unobstructed initially. how did he get in? it was supposed to be locked during the school day. so right now during the investigation it appeared as unlocked. so we will look at that and try to corroborate that if that s what we can. wasn t there a school officer
accounts by the police. are you surprised that federal law enforcement agency hasn t stepped into say given all the questions, given the shifting timelines, given these explanations, that the public, the victims and their families, the media are losing confidence in the credibility integrity of the information that s being provided, and therefore these questions, this investigation now has to be conducted by an outside party? it has to be conducted by an outside party. i don t know who may happen to do it. but it certainly cannot be into those agencies that we ve seen. the fbi if they choose to take it that got a lot of confidence that they ll go into a fair and open imbalance investigation for all that s involved. an right, now i can only imagine the and those confidence of that people across the, community across this country and country. and a number of i ve helped chief across the country a number of chiefs across the today and we are country today, and just all we re just all ju