In Nashville tonight, the
community continues to grieve.
After the shooting yesterday ata
private Christian elementary sc,
six people were killed,
including three nine year olds.
And tonight the city is still cg
to terms with what has become a
regular occurrence for so many
communities across the nation. s
a nation, this is not hyperbole.
As a nation, we owe these families more
than our prayers. We owe them action.
The day after the tragedy in Nashville,
there are more calls for
a ban on assault weapons.
Staff of the White House say
President Joe Biden spoke with
Nashville police chief and
several of that city's officers,
thanking them for their bravery
and quick response at the schoo.
It's really a stark contrast tot
we saw just ten months ago when
nineteen children and two teachs
were murdered and Uvalde and whs
been called the worst police response.
One of the worst police responses in U.S.
history gave you, senior report.
Only Polasky joining us here at
the desk to talk more about the
differences between the school shooting
in your valley and in Nashville.
So Tony, what are experts saying
are the main differences here?
One of the biggest facts is just
the amount of time when you look
at what happened in Nashville,
police moved in and were able to take
down that shooter within 14 mins
compared to Ivaldi when the amount of
time from the 1st 911 call to wn
authorities ultimately took down that gunman.
That was one hour and 17 minute.
But as we've seen in all of these cases
video also helps tell the storyd
when you look at the body camera video
from Nashville that has been released.
Authorities and experts say that
what you see is a methodical,
but urgent response by law enforcement.
They entered that school.
They search classroom by classr.
They're communicating with each other,
they trace the shooter up the tt
flight of stairs. We've all see.
By now.
And into that lobby area and
takedown the shooter.
But and ivaldi and we've all
seen this video by now.
Dozens of police officers make their way
into the Rob Elementary School hallway.
They are pacing.
They're on their phones.
They are seeing more and more
protective equipment arrive
and still not taking action.
And Tony, you were talking about
seeing the video from the body
cameras and the video and detais
from what happened in Nashville.
That was all released within 24 hours.
How do you think that the shooting at
Robbie Elementary actually affed
the approach to this most recen?
School shooting.
What law enforcement experts asl
as open government experts are saying
is that not only did the lessons
learned from Uvalda possibly hep
drive the law enforcement respo,
the actions that police took in Nashville,
but in addition to that also rey
underscored the need to get information
out to the public as quickly as possible
so that the public fully underss
what exactly happened that day.
Keep in mind, we are now 10 mon.
From the Uvalde school shooting on May 24th,
2022 and we've received precious
little information.
There's still a wide body of evidence
that investigators have collected that
the public to this day has not .
It's got to be just terribly hard for
those families in your value that are
still grieving the loss of their children
and the two teachers that were killed.
How are they reacting to the nef
what we've heard in Nashville this week?
Some of them are very much being
vocal and social media post.
Obviously grappling with not
only the reality of a school
shooting that claimed 6 lives,
but also, in addition to that,
seeing this body camera footaget
has been released showing just w
quickly police could have respod
and could have taken action that day,
and ivaldi at Rob Elementary Sc.
Of course we do not know
if a faster response.
That's one of the main questions
that still lingers from Vivaldi
is whether a faster response.
Could have saved lives.
But authorities are unequivocal in Nashville,
saying that this shooter had a
lot of weapons and that a fast
response almost certainly savedt
person from claiming more lives.
Such a stark contrast between the two scenes.
It is senior reporter Tony Pluhy
joining us on the desk tonight.
Tony, thank you. Thank you.