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speak louder than words can that on tuesday at rob elementary school in uvalde texas, this first priority for every single law enforcement officer in the state did not come first. the awful truth which was confirmed today is that police officers waited to storm a classroom while children were hiding inside and calling 911 for help that would not come. for as long as an hour. now we often here police officers talk about split second decisions. this time, the decision to go into a classroom and confront the shooter took 3,600 of those seconds. a full hour. a bit of hindsight from where i m sitting now, of course it s not a right decision. it was a wrong decision. very. no excuse for that. but again, i wasn t there. i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry there as soon as you can. that s steven mcgraw, director of the texas department public safety with the bottom line, different from what we ve been hearing all week long, dif ....
entering the elementary school. and we know more than an hour passed between the first 911 call and when the shooter was killed. police now acknowledge that tragic mistakes were made. the decision was made that this is barricade the subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. that was the decision. it was the wrong decision, period. the incident commander has been identified as uvalde school district police chief pedro pete arredondo. he made two brief statements to the press on the day of the shooting and is not spoken since. texas governor greg abbott faced questions about the praise he initially offered the first responders after the shooting and he said he was misled. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. there are people who deserve answers most. and those are the families whose lives have been destroyed. they need answers ....
even though he was firing shots outside for some 12 minutes, there are so many unanswered questions. here is what we do know. 11:28 a.m. central time the suspect crashed his truck into a ditch near the school. he exited the vehicle, fired at two witnesses across the street. at 11:40 a.m. the gunman entered the school through an unlocked door on the west side of the building. four minutes later, officers entered the school, received gunfire then retreated from the building as they called for backup. it was not until an hour later, full hour, 12:44 p.m. local time that a tactical team made entry and killed the suspect. this morning we are learning more about just what was going on inside that classroom. mia got some blood and put it on herself to pretend she was dead. she had bullet fragments in her back. that poor little girl and so many stories just hike it. we ll have more on mia s story in a moment. let s begin though on the investigation. cnn crime and justice co ....
challenges that are now surfacing that this killer had in his life. that lead to someone doing what he did. and then there will be all other kinds of issues, but there will be committees formed. there will be meetings held. there will be proposals that will be derived, many of which will lead to laws which will be passed in the state of texas, because let me make one thing perfectly clear. the status quo is unacceptable. this crime is unacceptable. we re not going to be here talking about it and do nothing about it. we will be looking for the best laws that we can get passed to make our communities and schools safer. go ahead. [ inaudible question ] . let s be clear about a couple things. that show that these background checks, if everyone wants to seize upon a particular strategy, and just assume, well, that s the golden strategy right there, look at what happened in the santa fe shooting. a background check had no relevancy whatsoever, because the killer took the gu ....