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Transcripts For CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20240707



chief of police for the uvalde school district who was incident commander that day, meaning the person authorities said made the decision to not have officers immediately go into that classroom and stop the shooter even though he knew it was an active shooter situation, he, according to our reports, has not responded to state investigators for two days. so keep that in mind as you listen to this recording obtained by kate, at ksat, went out 12:20 local time, in other words, as the shooting was happening and as police were standing nearby in a texas town for a tactical team to arrive, assemble, gear up, and then go in. no one was confronting the shooter during that time. police were standing outside. adjoining classrooms where kids were wounded, possibly dying still, and some hiding, smearing themselves with blood in order to appear dead as one girl did or calling 911 for help. those police officers were not going in. with uvalde ciac, uvalde ciac parents, there is an ....

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Transcripts For CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20240707



phone message sent to parents by the school district while the shooter was still in the school. we ve also just learned that this man, pedro pete arradondo, chief of police for the uvalde school district who was incident commander that day, meaning the person authorities said made the decision to not have officers immediately go into that classroom and stop the shooter even though he knew it was an active shooter situation, he, according to our reports, has not responded to state investigators for two days. so keep that in mind as you listen to this recording obtained by affiliate ksat. it went out at 12:20 local time, in other words, as the shooting was happening and as police were standing nearby in a texas town for a tactical team to arrive, assemble, gear up, and then go in. no one was confronting the shooter during that time. police were standing outside. adjoining classrooms where kids were wounded, possibly dying still and others were hiding, smearing themselves ....

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Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20240604 04:13:00

But for all intents and purposes, he s not cooperating at this point with the texas rangers. they ve asked him for information, for followup interviews and so far, that has not happened. we have been making every effort to try and get in touch with him. we ve been to his home. we ve been trying other ways to reach him, and anderson, we ve just not been able to get to him. he was not at that friday press conference. the dps said they didn t know why he wasn t there. just a lot of questions and need some answers but no one really knows where he is right now. shimon, i want to play a question that you asked to police, i think this was this was last week, it was thursday, and i just think it s really important, because, you know, there are a lot of there were a lot of questions from the moment, you and i spoke on the phone the day after this when i was going down there and you ve been on the scene, and i asked you about the statement that the police had made and it was clearly writte ....

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Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20240604 00:13:00

To try and get in touch with him, we ve been to his home, we ve been trying other ways to reach him and anderson, we ve just not been able to get to him. he was not at that friday press conference, the dps head there said they don t know why he wasn t there but just wasn t there so obviously a lot of questions and need some answers but no one really knows where he is right now. shimon, i want to play a question that you asked to police, i think that was, i mean this was last week, and it was thursday and i just think it s really important because, you know, there are a lot of, a lot of questions from the moment you and i spoke on the phone the day after this, when i was going down there and you had been on the scene and know this better than anyone what was going on and i asked you about the statement that the police had made and it was clearly written the way the statement the police made, it was strange the way it was worded. it had clearly, was avoiding some very glaring topics, l ....

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