More heavily armored officers arrive, but no one gives the order to go in.
Then suddenly a new round of gunfire [SOUND].
>> [INAUDIBLE] >> But
after those gunshots, Arredondo again tries to talk with the shooter.
>> Can you hear me sir?
>> And again minutes later.
>> Sir, if you can hear me please put your firearm down sir.
We don't wanna anybody else hurt.
>> We got [INAUDIBLE].
>> I know.
>> We doing, we trying to get him out.
>> After no response police still stand around without much urgency.
Over the course of the next nearly 30 minutes we see more officers arrive.
>> So a lot came out over the weekend.
A big report looking into the response or basically non response from law
enforcement in that Uvalde the devastating shooting as well as new body cam footage.
And Look, I think that there's a lot there that we gotta dive into.
There's also some stuff baked into it that I think people are missing and
I want to reiterate so where to get to that too.
But overall the bottom line is nearly 400 local state and federal law
enforcement officers were at the scene that day including 91 state troopers,
none of whom moved to lead the response.
400 people with, I think it's safe to say the equipment,
the training and the obligation to do something.
And they're certainly when you watch the video,
there are cops there saying, why aren't we going in, why aren't we doing so
there were people there who wanted to act, but nobody, none of the many
people who could have taken control the situation chose to do so.
Arredondo being I think at the top of that list and by the way, he had written
the active shooter response plan for that school district as Peter Redondo.
He assigned himself as incident commander but
did not follow the protocol that he himself had set up.
He was on the site.
You saw him in the video trying to I guess talk down the shooter At one point someone
is screaming to the shooter.
This can be peaceful at that point.
Many, many people had already died of course.
But anyway, while this report that came out, it doesn't make clear if lives could
have been saved with a swifter response, it left open the possibility.
Well, isn't that open minded of the report?
See it's the report that did it, No human was involved.
The report coalesced from the cosmic dust of creation.
And so no one is responsible for the proclamations of the report.
Just the paper itself.
But there's there's a lot more bad stuff here here Francesco what we found out over
the weekend.
I mean, I definitely think that it's good the report basically
like blamed all law enforcement, including you know, the Customs and
Border patrol folks that were on the scene.
Pretty much everyone every like there's 400 of you And
none of y'all in all of your infinite training and
weaponry decide that you need to go in right now,
78 minutes later is when you go, in it's insane Arredondo in
that clip is saying sir, we don't want any more violence.
This is a madman.
This is someone who has gone into a school and has opened fire.
You already know they crashed their car, right?
So like, no, no.
I mean maybe it's like a really level headed mass shooter.
You know those, you know those ones?
No, this is not a heist, We're not a bank here, we're in a school and
you can hear, I'm sorry, you guys, you can hear Children screaming.
We can't they can't they know there are people injured there,
They know there are people who are dead, right?
And so the decision was or are they dead?
Dead or are they kind of dead and they decided that their dead dead.
So we're not going to go, it's just too late.
It's too late.
Yeah, that's what it was.
And our donor, by the way, before we move on.
Yeah, he was he was about to be on city council.
So this is a guy who was not thinking about his own protocol.
He was thinking about his political career.
That's just his his eyes are cast for do city council,
then maybe mayor governor someday President Arredondo so that he could fail
hundreds of millions of people rather than that specific community.
That's how you do it.
So yeah, anyway, like I'm glad that they it look,
the report makes pretty clear how bad this was.
It does pull its punches needlessly, I think in some places like for
instance I'm gonna go ahead and grab it five.
Other than the attacker, this report did not find any villains in the course of its
investigation, there's no one to whom we can attribute malice or ill motives.
Instead we found systemic failures and egregious poor decision making.
So for instance, we're pointing out, you know, the cops and all that.
The army of law enforcement, the army of guns that they had.
But they also cite a culture of noncompliance from school administrators
who are aware of unsafe practices such as teachers routinely leaving doors unlocked
or propping them open.
And the shortage of keys for interior and exterior entrances, poor internet and
mobile coverage, interfered with teachers receiving lockdown notifications and
being able to report the attack to local police.
Yeah, that is interesting.
You know the most interesting thing about it is that it's effing like irrelevant.
He's gonna get in the locked door isn't gonna stop the guy with the A.
R. O.
The teachers didn't find out about the lockdown.
Well except for the notifications,
they got the rapid fire notifications as each bullet left the chamber of the rifle.
I think that was their their notification being able to report the attack to local
police.
No no no the police were there relatively fast.
That's kind of part of the issue that they didn't act.
No this is not on the wifi, it's not the teachers not on the doors.
Okay.
And I want to go to my main point here because when this report comes
out saying hundreds of cops, they all failed and
we rightfully get incensed, why weren't they braver?
Why wasn't their organization?
Why didn't they rush in?
And every one of those impulses is right to have it is it is your ethical
obligation to be frustrated by those things.
But like I said on day one, the solution to the problem wasn't a good apple.
The solution to the problem wasn't Arredondo saying, let's go in there,
storm the barricade because you know what you would have had,
even if they'd done that in minute three,
you would have potentially saved some lives and that would be a good thing.
But you know what else?
You would have had a whole bunch of dead people because they were already dead.
Okay, moving in there solves some of the needless additional problems.
It doesn't solve the fundamental problem, which is that someone could go to a store
and buy a gun capable of killing tons of people in a very short period of time.
That's the problem.
And no amount of rapid response or swat or extra training or
a faster alert system is going to stop that fundamental problem.
And my fear is that when people see this report, they say, it's the cops.
They need better training.
They need a better chain of command.
No, that'll solve the cops problem.
It won't solve America's problem,
which is the access to the weaponry in the first place.
Absolutely.
And you can see that because There are 400 of them and
it's not just chain of command, you guys, they're scared.
The cops are scared.
And this is not the first mass shooting where cops have hesitated,
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, also a police officer was on scene hesitated,
did not want to go in until the police joined.
The majority of people in this country to advocate for tougher gun safety laws and
for actual actually getting assault weapons off the streets,
we're all going to be victimized and they know it more than anyone else.
Why are they cowering in fear when they know it's one person they already know,
it's one person they already know even in their best scenario which is a gunman
is barricaded by himself or at least by himself, the only person
who's alive by himself, which was maybe not even the how did they know?
How did they know?
But anyway, even if we were to assume that they were still afraid to go in why?
Because nobody wants to die because everyone understands how powerful an A.
R. 15 is,
Everyone understands these kinds of weapons.
And yeah, it's scary as hell.
Now you can say that is your training, that is your job.
I would agree with that.
But I'd also say that maybe no one should be put in that position where they're
staring down the barrel of a high, high powered semi automatic weapon of war.
Like, like this.
Yeah, yeah.
And I think that's borne out by the fact that you'll notice that the conversation
around you've Aldi is that the cops didn't Russian, but
that's not the conversation in a lot of these situations.
I mean Stoneman Douglas had a similar sort of thing a bit with a security guard, but
that wasn't the conversation around some of these others because in some of
the other of the many school shootings that we've had in America, there doesn't
appear to be evidence that the cops waited, you had brave cops who rushed in
doing things that most of us can't imagine doing and in all likelihood couldn't do,
they were brave and in those cases you still had tons of people dead.
That is the proof of this.
Them rushing in and shooting the shooter.
That is good.
Once we've already had the inevitable outcome of our, you know,
completely non existent gun policy here in America,
that's a solution to the problem we created.
Okay.
But the actual solution means that you don't have to roll the dice on
the bravery of an individual cop, you know, and, and and
if I could just briefly go ahead, the police chief is on leave.
We'll see, We'll see what ends up happening with that.
You know, all of the, not just the failure on that day, but
all the lies about the attempted cover up.
Even that footage we were showing you.
The mayor had to, like, unilaterally release that and
might get in trouble because of it.
Like they're still trying to cover it up.