good evening, shannon. the department has called on the fbi to step in amid increasing unrest school board meetings across the country. dissuade parents from speaking out against elected leaders. it started with a letter sent to president biden from the national school board association asking for federal assistance to deal with what the board calls threatening behavior by parents. quote: the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes. following an inquiry from fox news, the department of justice announced that they would oblige the nsba request. the backlash was immediate. if this isn t a deliberate attempt to chill parents from showing up at school board meetings so their elected school board, i don t know what is. in response, deputy attorney general lisa monaco insisted that government agencies would only intervene in cases of violence. the job of the justice department and local law enforcement
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
Larger police department gets to come in and take over. under further questioning, mccraw later explains confronting an active shooter should take precedence over the chain of command. bottom line, there s always someone who takes the lead. it may not have to be the chief and frankly i mentioned it before. you can delegate to another agency but you can delegate is down to even a sergeant or a lead officer or someone with tactical expertise so there s always someone that says let s go, line up, stack up and someone is at the front door. a texas house committee investigating the response to the shooting agrees with his last statement. in their report they say any of the state or federal law enforcement personnel on site that day could have taken charge writing, quote, these local officials were not the only ones expected to supply the leadership needed during this tragedy. hundreds of responders from numerous law enforcement agencies, many of whom were better trained and better equ
Investigating the response to the shooting agrees with his last statement. in their report they say any of the state or federal law enforcement personnel on site that day could have taken charge writing, quote, these local officials were not the only ones expected to supply the leadership needed during this tragedy. hundreds of responders from numerous law enforcement agencies, many of whom were better trained and better equipped than the school district police, quickly arrived on the scene. so why did officials from dps which is responsible for statewide law enforcement keep singling out uvalde school district police chief pete arredondo? you know, at this point i don t know what to believe or what not to believe. reporter: don mclaughlin is mayor of uvalde. he thinks the blame for the police response belongs to all the agencies who were there, not just the uvalde school district police. you re hearing all kinds of stories now coming from one place, dps. yeah. kind of contro