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it s monday july 18th. lawmakers have released a 77-page report outlining a series of missteps by multiple law enforcement agencies who responded to that school shooting at robb elementary school in may, including failures to adhere to their active shooter training and prioritizing the lives of the victims. the scathing report says authorities who responded to the scene displayed, quote, an overall lackadaisical approach. and while investigators say they didn t find evidence of malice, they did find, quote, egregious poor decisionmaking. the majority were from the u.s. border patrol and from the texas department of public safety. one texas state representative says the report contains difficult truths. it s hard to hear that there were multiple systemic failures because we want to tell ourselves that systems work. we want to tell ourselves there s one person we can point our fingers at. we want to tell ourselves that this won t happen again. that s just not true. what ....
systematic failures and egregiously poor decision-making resulted in more than an hour of confusion and chaos before police finally confronted and then killed the gunman who had murdered 19 children and 2 teachers. the victims family members got a copy of the report before it went public. vincent salazar, whose granddaughter, you probably remember her picture, was among those young children killed. he reacted with skepticism. we re not going to get the truth. because there is cover-up. everybody s throwing everybody under the bus. the only ones that ain t under the bus is because they re six feet in the ground now, and that s our children. and the two teachers. it is unimaginable heartbreak for these families. it goes on and on. also detailed in this report, major, major lapses in school security leading up to the shooting, including broken locks and a, quote, culture of noncompliance with safety policies. also even poor wi-fi that may have delayed the lockdown ale ....
investigative committee finally has been released and outlines a series of failures by law enforcement. the 77-page report criticizes a lackadaisical approach by the nearly 400 officers who ended up at the scene of the school shooting. for the first time, we are seeing hours of body cam video. it captures chaos, confusion, and excruciating delays, as critical minutes were ticking by and no law enforcement charged into that room. much more on that in a moment. but let s begin with athena jones in indiana. what are you learning? reporter: this is remarkable. this took place in a mall s food court at about 6:00 p.m. on sunday night. three people were killed by this shooter who came armed with a long gun, and authorities still don t know what led to it, whether these people were targeted. they re looking into that, looking at surveillance video, and further investigating it. but in this case, the police chief of greenwood, a suburb of indianapolis, pointed to what he ca ....
we were told that the families viewed the video or were ginn access to the video and told that it was going to be released publicly. they were so upset about the other video released. so the mayor being aware of that sensitivity wanted to give the families an opportunity to be aware of this. for him this is about trance parns sy and what we see in this body camera footage and we should warn is disturbing. the language and the footage. it really takes you inside those moments inside that school. you have a police sergeant outside the school making decisions and deploying officers unaware of what s going on and that there are children in a classroom and then seeing finally in the other video released we finally get to see chief pete arredondo who s scrutinized over the inactions in this incident. and then we also hear a radio transmission, a police operator telling a police officer late in the incident in the 12:00 hour of this incident saying a student calling 911 inside ....