hopefully. and on that note, i want to show yo the viewers, your exchange, shimon, with the director of the texas department of public safety today. you have people who are alive, children who are calling 9-1-1 saying, please, send the police. they are alive in that class room. there are lives that are at risk. we are both well aware of that. right. why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? again, you know, the on-scene commander considered a barricaded subject and that there was time and no children at risk. obviously obviously, you know, based upon the information we have, there were children in that class room that were at risk and it was, in fact, still an active shoot ever situation ask not a barricaded subject. shimon, have you learned anything more about whether weather these 9-1-1 calls from kids, still a live in the classroom, were communicated to the on-scene commander?
hello. you re watching the bbc news channel. let s get more now from texas, where authorities have admitted they made the wrong decision by failing to immediately storm a robb elementary school classroom where a gunman had barricaded himself during the shooting. families have been asking why action wasn t taken faster. cbs correspondent, danya bacchus, is in uvalde and gave me a sense of the anger there about the delayed police intervention. we are hearing that outrage, that frustration. as you can imagine, since tuesday when the shooting happened, people in this community started asking how. how can this happen? then police data giving a timeline, an explanation for what happened police giving.
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 was the wrong decision’ to delay storming the classroom, a public safety official admits; it was not until an hour later that an off-duty US Border Patrol tactical officer arrived and killed the gunman.