why have we heard so many different messages, frankly, lies families don t know thank you. i m going to ask my colleagues if they want to comment as well. multiple systemic failures. our report does not look at other comments that have been made to try to compare and contrast and whatsoever. we laid out the basic facts as we were charged with to do. and what i said early on about law enforcement. the officers who knew or should ve known that this was an active shooter situation by their training, experience should have done more. we are very clear on that. not every officer on the scene had that same information and had that same opportunity to comply with their training. one of the things this committee has not done because we re a three-person committee, is to go through and determine which law enforcement personnel knew what, what did they know and when they knew it. in order to do that i think that s going to take many months to go through all of the different video
nbc has obtained a copy has already condemned systemic failures and egregious poor decision making on the part of nearly 400 local state and federal law enforcement officers on the scene. at robb elementary on may 4th. let s go to nbc news correspondent, priscilla thompson. priscilla, you ve been in uvalde speaking with parents and anticipating where we may hear from this report that they just released. what are some of the big takeaway so far? one of the things that you already mentioned, the sheer amount of the police presence that was here on that day. we re talking about hundreds of officers from nearly two dozen agencies, from federal, state and local law enforcement. the majority of them where texas department of public safety and border patrol. we are also learning about what happened in regards to the incident command. there was a lot of talk over the past several weeks over the school police chief, pete arredondo, being the incident commander. what is clear in this r
hold up for you, says cities soul crushed. i think that perfectly describes the feeling here in uvalde this morning. behind me is the elementary the school. overnight, a series of crosses were put out, one for each of the 21 victims, the 19 children and the two teachers that were killed here. this small community of 15,000 people is coming together, united in grief for what happened here. about 1000 people attended a vigil for the victims last night. a solo violinist closed with a rare rendition of amazing grace. the music punctuated by the anguish of those who were there. almost everyone at that vigil, it feels like everyone in this town has some connection to the victims. including ten-year-old tests marie mata, who loved tiktok dance is, and ariana grande a. they just received the honor rolled and received a good citizen award. we are just learning about how the mask or unfolded. there are questions about how the timeline and how long it took for law enforcement to step in
friends. i know everybody has been hearing from loved ones. just shock. i got a note this morning from a friend in mississippi. his pastor wrote the congregation yesterday and said, as i write these words, the sun is rising on may 25th, 2022. another day of mourning in america after another mass shooting at another elementary school. as we pray yet again for those whose lives have been torn us under by a troubled soul wielding a deadly weapon, it seems important and necessary to me to say as a christian pastor that we try to find reasonable ways to reduce gun violence, and that is not political. it is moral. the church needs to have a moral compass which can tell the difference between that which is politically partisan and that which is moral. otherwise, our fear of being political may, at times, make us fall silent concerning matters which we should not be silent. as martin luther king jr. once widely said, the day we fall silent about the things that matter is the day our
Three weeks ago he was elected to a second job, as a member of the uvalde city council, he intended to continue to serve as the chief of police for the Uvalde School district while serving on the city council. Here, arradondo was scheduled to be sworn in tomorrow as a member of the city council at a meeting of the uvalde city council. Earlier today, that uvalde city meeting scheduled for tomorrow was canceled. Yesterday, the president and first lady brought flowers to the Elementary School site, robb elementary in uvalde, and they touched the photos of the murdered children and two teachers who lost lives trying to save the lives of those children. President biden and the first Lady Joe Biden attended sunday mass in uvalde, at the Catholic Church filled with mourners including some of the family members of the victims, and as the president was leaving, some in the crowd pleaded with the president to do something. He responded by saying i will. Joining us now is msnbcs sam brock in uval