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 the c
get the information is just unacceptable. i think this mayor here in the town is tacking some heat and realized that more information needs to come out. we have been asking for more information so i think in this situation this is something that he wanted to do but this is all of course in the end about the families and what it is that they re dealing with. yeah. i can t imagine being a family member and seeing the chief patiently attempting to negotiate with someone firing shots at their children. so hard to watch. shimon prokupecz, we appreciate your reporting as always. i want to bring in senior law enforcement analyst and former fb deputy director andrew mccabe now. what is your reaction? ryan, i have been to a lot of crisis scenes and situations.
couldn t get home fast and i was like oh, it s a christmas parade and oh, god, here comes a guy plowing everybody down. i don t though what portion of the parade it was at all. reporter: did you think after this happened there could be a further threat? were you shaken? i was shook up but i didn t know what was happening. people said gunshots. i didn t hear gunshots. i m not sure what to expect so i closed my door and went back inside and waited until it was clear and went down and talked to the police. reporter: so you stayed inside just in case there was a threat of someone firing shots? i didn t know what to expect so i stayed inside until everything was cleared up. reporter: i know you told me you don t conoknow anyone perhat the parade. does that make you nervous you don t know if anyone you know was at the parade? i don t know who was here and
pr frightened? i was shook up. i didn t know what was happening. i heard people saying gunshots. i didn t hear gunshots. i went inside and waited until it was clear and went and talked to the police. you stayed inside just in case there was a threat of someone firing shots. yeah. i didn t know what to expect. i stayed inside until everything was cleared up. i know you told me you don t know anyone that you know who was perhaps at the parade. does that make you nervous? not knowing if certain people are okay. i m assuming my friends are okay. i was looking on facebook. nobody that i know personally is injured. i don t know who was here and who wasn t. how fast did you hear and see response from police? they were down the street before he hit the people. they were behind him. he hit them this was the middle of the parade maybe. there were running after him.
it was a band of some sort and that s all i know. reporter: and just to explain where we are, you were watching this from the corner of main and barso and do you know if this was sort of the early part of the parade? were you watching the middle of it? i don t know. i came home in the middle of it and stepped outside i was annoyed i couldn t get home fast and i was like oh, it s a christmas parade and oh, god, here comes a guy plowing everybody down. i don t know what portion of the parade it was in at all. reporter: did you think right after this happened that, you know, there could be a further threat? were you frightened at the moment? i was a little shook up but didn t know what was happening. people were saying gunshots. i didn t hear gunshots. i m not sure what to expect so i closed my door and went back inside and waited until it was clear and went down and talked to the police. okay. you stayed inside just in case there was a threat of someone firing shots?