had a protective ballistic shield with them in the school, nine minutes after the gunman got into the school. lawrence, you and i spoke last week, where we know that at 20 minutes, there was it at least three ballistic it was told to me by mccraw, stephen mccraw, he acknowledged to me that he didn t have equipment material and ammunition to be able to reach that room at 12:03 and beyond. so for those 48 minutes, we saw nothing. i have no doubt, that that first ballistic shield arrived with a vest, and that was part of the third, i don t know. we clearly see that these people didn t have any idea on how to do the right thing. and we ve heard from every expert in the nation, say, you have whether you have the equipment or not, you just go in, and that never happened here, even with all the right equipment. in the hearings that are
he told the san antonio state news the head of the state police, stephen mccraw told him that as many as 13 state police officers were told inside the school during the hour when the police did nothing to save children and teachers who were bleeding to death on the floors of their classrooms. quote, he told me, there was enough people and equipment to breach the door gutierrez said, even as officers continued to wait for more than an hour and some of the children inside the two locked classrooms called 9-1-1 for help. gutierrez said, officers in the hallway at one point had as many as three ballistic shields before finally breaching the door to the classrooms. there was enough material in that room to stop this threat he said. and it didn t happen. executive editor of the san antonio express news described the harassment that reporters in uvalde are facing from police. quote, they keep threatening to arrest us, but so far they haven t. it s been really hostile. there is the concern t
happened in school the story got worse for the police. absolutely nothing, no legal principle of any kind, prevents the chief of the school police force, pete arredondo, from publicly discussing every minute he spent in that school for over an hour not saving lives. an assistant on assistant and the office of chief our don those criminal defense lawyer issued a statement to the news media today saying after conferring with legal counsel our client has considered your offers and has elected not to make any further comment at this time. our next guest texas state senator roland gutierrez is the only state official who has been trying to find the truth and tell the truth about what happened at robb elementary school. he told the senate and that [inaudible] the head of the state police, stephen mccraw told him that as many as 13 state police
Enlarge this image A Texas Department of Public Safety officer watches on June 3, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas, near a memorial near Robb Elementary School. Eric