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the family members the heartbreaking hallway surveillance video of the school shooting, which this surveillance video was leaked to a texas newspaper and published earlier in the week last week. cnn s shimon propose pez and rosa flores joining us now from uvalde, texas. shimon, you have obtained a copy of this report. tell us what you can so far. reporter: well, right off the top it s very clear that this committee found and i think this is significant that the blame as to what happened here in terms of the lack of law enforcement response, disorganized response, at one point quoting it as chaotic, the blame rests on almost every law enforcement agency that responded to the scene. you know, we ve heard a lot from state officials essentially blaming everything on one person, saying that it was the school chief who was the incident commander and this was the individual making all the decisions. while this report does not find that to necessarily be the case, they sa ....
shimon, you ve obtained the report and read it. tell us what you ve learned. reporter: the lackadaisical response, they talk about how there was no command, no control, no leadership essentially on the scene of the shooting. it was just truly chaos, every officer doing their own thing. we re also learning what the police chief, the school police chief, pete arredondo, told the committee. he appeared before the committee. he explained his thinking. he said at one point he didn t believe there were any kids inside the score because it was awards day. what he said was he looked at an adjacent room, room 110, and when he went in there, there was no one in there, and it made himly were no babies as he said inside the room. of course, we know that was not the case. he also describes how initially his thinking was that this was an active shooter situation, but then what happens is he starts to believe that the subject, the gunman, is barricaded, and that in order to rescue t ....
Tests. they need to constantly get better. we need to admit where we re wrong and work on making ourselves better and the agencies around us that much better as well. so, chief, what are you hoping will learned? what are you hoping will resonate from the report and what we know thus far? i think this goes beyond just uvalde. i think everyone in the united states should be aware of what took place and making sure they re taking their training seriously, tabletop exercises and understands what leadership s responsibility is when they get to the scene. not everyone can make decisions under pressure. if i m still an active chief, whoever i have running my special operations, i have to make sure that is a person that can function under pressure. so those things like that, you know, you need to take all of that into considering and not ....
Even criminality, and at the sam same time, does it also absolve this school police chief pete arredondo because there were multiple agencies, multiple leaders who this report says failed? well, i doubt if it absolves anybody of anything at this point and whether or not anything rises to a criminal level, i m not an attorney and i can t really comment on that, and i haven t really read the report. but obviously it raises a lot of questions that have to be addressed and fixed. whether it s criminal or not, you just can t have this continue. i think one of the biggest challenges that leadership lie the mayor of uvalde and others are going to face is going to be, you know, the faith that the citizens have now in that particular police department in light of this, and what do you do? how do you regain that? i mean, i think that s going to be tough for him to be able to deal with, and i think at some ....
It s never going to happen to them, what i always say is anyone who s ever been a victim, when they woke up that day, they didn t think they were going to be a victim. we have to empower ourselves, step up, be proactive with our police department and city and state leaders and say how are you going to help us help ourselves. and, chief, there s shared blame, right, and this new report underscores that. but of all these 300 law enforcement people who responded, whether it be the local level, uvalde, border patrol, state troopers, how do you suppose they re thinking? what are they thinking, feeling, especially as this report is revealing? i would imagine anybody who responded to that is feeling pretty down. i mean how can you not? i mean, there was multiple failures. not everybody was directly responsible. ....