being careful about what body camera and surveillance video w ws we show you. we want to be respectful of the grieving families. some videos are difficult to watch given knowing what is happening off screen. there is a lot to learn but worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answers from law enforcement officials in the hours and days and months after this massacre, it s likely we wouldn t know as much as we do about what really happened in uvalde:breaking news out of texas police on the scene of a deadly shooting at an elementariry school. difficult images. for hours after the shootings in uvalde, there is chaos around the school and few details. we ve not been give b or heard reporting on a timeline. is it clear how quickly police were able to get on the scene. relatively quickly but not fast enough. i don t want to go beyond that because we don t know how quickly agents were able to respond to the scene. there s a lot of fac
universally accepted active shooter protocols. they allowed the gunman to remain in the classroom for more than 70 minutes. there were children still alive inside, one of whom repeatedly called 911 for help. there were wounded teachers fighting for their lives. tonight we take a close look at the false and at times misleading information initially provided by texas law enforcement and public officials to families and reporters about the police response. throughout this hour, we are being careful about what body camera and surveillance videos we show you. there will be no images of violence or sounds of gunfire. we want to be respectful of all those grieving in uvalde. some of the videos though are difficult to watch given what we know was happening elsewhere on screen. there s still a lot to learn, but it s worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answered from law enforcement officials in the hours and the days and months after this massac
The children and that the subject was barricaded and that organized with the proper equipment to go in. did you go get a breaching cool. it s very unusual to see agencies pointing the finger at each other in the ah math right after this. right after this, in the day or two after the attacks you heard participating agencies calling into question the decisions of other participating agencies. i m thinking specifically about the comments of colonel steve mccraw and i think of the second or third day after the event. he came right out and called out the decisions made by the first responders as having been wrong. it was the wrong decision, period. that s just remarkable to hear. i think he had to do that because he s correcting so much false information had been out before his comments, and that seems to have let loose a really unseemly round of finger-pointing, agency at other agencies and all that has a terribly corrosive effect on the community and their ability to
Like i said, there were 19 officers in there. there was plenty of officers to do whatever needed to be done with one exception, that the incident commander inside believed that they needed more equipment and more officers to do a tactical breach at that point. the chief of police of consolidated federated school district, he was convinced and, again, i want to go back and say he was convinced at the time that there s no more threat to the children an that the subject was barricaded and that they had time an that they had organized with the proper equipment to go in. did you go get a breaching cool. it s very unusual to see agencies pointing the finger at each other in the ah math right after this. right after this, in the day or two after the attacks you heard participating agencies calling into question the decisions of other participating agencies. i m thinking specifically about the comments of colonel steve mccraw and i think of the second or third day after the event. he came