one was at risk inside? and that other officers in that hallway didn t just break rank, and try to break into the classroom? the commander s decision that no one was at risk is unfathomable. it it it s you can t i can t understand that, on any level. and even if he was assessed to be a barricaded subject situation, instead of active shooter even in a barricaded subject situation, once you have any indication that barricaded subject is harming hostage, you send a tactical team in. that being said, the fact that officers couldn t help within an hour, when this continued and didn t describe the awful and try to help is it s shocking to me. i i i i don t
it has been 24 hours a day people have been stopping by, praying, crying, leaving signs, cards, flowers, anything to try to heal, representing all the lives lost and this as the investigation continues, those chilling details continue to emerge like reports that the shooter used as social media live streaming apps called youthe and was known as the school shooter because of his previous posts of violence, texas governor greg abbott says he is upset over how long it took for responding officers to act and reach the classroom. a barricaded subject situation. there was time to retrieve the key and wait for equipment.
texas governor greg abbott aiming his ire at law enforcement. my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations, which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. reporter: after damning new admissions from texas authorities. it was the wrong decision, period. reporter: the incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. a decision was made this was a barricaded subject situation. there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. reporter: officials explained how the shooter got into the school. where we knew the shooter entered, ramos, was propped open by a teacher. reporter: investigators clarifying the time line as police arrived.
entering the elementary school. and we know more than an hour passed between the first 911 call and when the shooter was killed. police now acknowledge that tragic mistakes were made. the decision was made that this is barricade the subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. that was the decision. it was the wrong decision, period. the incident commander has been identified as uvalde school district police chief pedro pete arredondo. he made two brief statements to the press on the day of the shooting and is not spoken since. texas governor greg abbott faced questions about the praise he initially offered the first responders after the shooting and he said he was misled. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. there are people who deserve
the question is this, 40-minute gap. if the 911 operators were aware that children were live in that classroom, why weren t officers notified of that? if that s the case, why didn t they take action? that s the question. again, i will go back to the answer for right now is that it was considered the decision was made on the scene. i wasn t there. the same point in time, a decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation. there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. that was the decision. that was the thought process at that particular point in time. [ inaudible ]