In just the last day, more of the footage from the horrific mass shooting in Uvalde,
Texas was released.
And it revealed quite a bit.
It doesn't fundamentally change our understanding of what happened.
It was a horrifying abdication of whatever responsibility the cops on the scene
had to save lives.
But it revealed a few things that I think we need to dive into.
So first of all, it shows more than two dozen officers,
some in tactical gear waiting for more than an hour outside the classroom while
the gunman is barricaded inside of it.
Several officers are seen running away from the classroom
door after hearing shots fired.
Even after hearing at least four additional shots from the classroom,
45 minutes after they arrived on the scene, the officers still waited.
So they knew more shots are being fired, in theory, more people,
kids were being killed and yet still they waited.
They asked for keys to one of the classrooms.
It was unlocked.
Investigators said later, that's the sort of thing, you'd check, you'd think.
They brought tear gas and gas masks.
They later carried a sledgehammer and still they waited.
And of course while that was going on, children and teachers
still inside the building were calling 911 literally begging for their lives.
19 fourth-grade students and two teachers were killed.
Now that is effectively all stuff that we already knew, although getting
the opportunity to literally watch them as they just stood there hearing shots fired.
Knowing the stakes there.
And apparently only responding to protect their own lives.
Running away briefly and then coming back.
But there are a few other things that were identified.
One, this individual as using hand sanitizer, for safety.
Just to be safe.
77 minutes through the course of the video,
it's carefully cropped apart.
There's things that potentially they could be hiding from a still.
But to use the hand sanitizer.
What a weirdly specific choice to make in that moment.
Even if you assume that.
You can go ahead.
I was going to say, even if you assume that many of the cops,
let's say desperately wanted to go in, but
we're listening to their superior officers or whatever.
Let's extend that to them.
It hasn't been earned, but let's do it.
You're just standing there, 77 minutes are going by, you can watch a movie in that
time, possibly get some hand sanitizer wipe it on your hands.
They're making phone calls, they're doing text messages and stuff like that.
I mean maybe desperately looking for the word to go in and yet cleaning the hands.
That just hurts man.
>> Man at least look busy.
Like this is a tough, I don't know what to do in these situations.
Because everyone looks at that and obviously it is horrible.
It is very bad.
And the thing is like someone who's actually in a traumatic circumstance,
I think they get completely disoriented and they might do something.
So I can understand why the kids, like there might be a kid who's
traumatized after the guy shoots half the class and leaves the kid might,
I don't know, just bring out a game or something.
Just be like, I don't know and shocking.
So that would be heartbreaking.
This kind of weird behavior is heartbreaking completely other way.
At least look busy.
At least look like you understand what's happening on
the other side of the school or the other side of the wall.
Instead of just standing there scanning through your phone and
putting on hand sanitizer.
It's so messed up.
They don't even look like people who are trying to pass as someone who cares.
Yep, >> They don't even look scared.
>> Cause they're not, because they're not in danger.
There is nothing in the video that I've seen that indicates that these people
understand there's kids getting killed.
>> Yeah. >> Wouldn't you and
they're just like I'm perimeter guy.
So I'm gonna see if I've got any new words with friends rounds to play.
The punisher on the phone is the clincher and I know you have that.
Yeah, we're gonna get to that in just one second.
I wanna pause on this for a second though because we need to understand what
happened and what we've tolerated.
Because let's bear in mind very little has changed after all this happened.
You had a cop who has this duty to get in there and
save lives putting on hand sanitizer.
And at that same time there's a little girl who is dipping her hands in
the blood of her dead friend to camouflage herself so that she doesn't die.
Like steaks and steaks on one side of the door and another.
And that's what was going on.
Now, >> And
it's not that they don't know that that's happening.
Sorry, that's it.
It's not that like, my God if I had known that these kids were in trouble,
I wouldn't have done the hand sanitizer.
No bro, the reason you're there in that hallway is because someone told you
there's a mass shooter in this school somewhere.
>> Yeah, that's why.
>> Yeah it's the audacity of flaunting how safe you are at that moment.
Relative to the people who are in danger.
>> That you can worry about that.
Yeah, She wasn't worried about germs at that point, she had other worries,
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