The Austin American statesman has obtained video footage that allegedly
the Sovaldi County District Attorney did not want us to see.
It is surveillance footage, body cam footage of the rob elementary
school as the mass shooting was taking place on campus and
it shows what the police response was.
Okay. So it's a 77 minute long recording.
We're gonna show you a few clips from it.
You're not gonna see anything graphic in it, although you will hear some gunshots.
I just wanted to give you that warning.
And it just sheds more light on the incompetence and
cowardice of the police who were there on the scene.
I wanna start off by saying that the gunman actually started firing his weapon
when he was outside of the school.
And even though there were cops on the scene who could have stopped him at
the time, no one fired their weapon at him.
No one stopped him as he was entering the campus.
Now with that said, in the next video, you're going to hear the teacher call 911.
As she sees the gunmen entering the school,
she's also urging the students to get to their classrooms for safety.
Let's watch.
>> I can't forget that.
I cannot see him.
The kids are running.
My God.
[SOUND] Get down.
Get in your rooms.
Get in your
rooms.
>> So as you watch that, I want you to remember there were already police
officers on the scene and based on what we've already learned
through previous reports, they decided not to shoot at him.
They decided to just stand by as he shot his weapon and ran into the school.
>> Yeah. So this story just when you thought it
couldn't get any worse, got way worse.
Because I remember recovered I think it was last week
that the story that there was a police sniper that had a shot at
the gunman before he went into the high school.
And he was looking for in order to shoot, right and he didn't receive one.
So he didn't shoot.
But I thought at the time to be fair to that guy, I mean how do you know for
sure that the guy's a gunman?
Do you know for sure that he's gonna go in and do something wrong?
He hasn't shot any buddy yet.
Right.
So it makes sense that to wait for
a commanding officer to tell you to take him out.
I get it, it sucks.
And it turned out to be a disaster.
But I get it.
No, it turns out this the guy had started shooting into the school before he went in
and they had the shot and they didn't take.
>> They didn't take it.
>> I mean, my God, how many times have we shown you cops killing?
Let's be honest, mainly black guys unarmed.
>> As they are running away.
>> As they're running away with no weapons.
I mean a million scenarios where they put, I mean recently they just put 60
bullets in one guy turns out he didn't even have a weapon.
There's a guy shooting into a school with kids and they don't take the shot and
then they sit around inside the school.
[CROSSTALK] We got more on that.
>> I have to say, I have to say the video is so infuriating because you see them,
there's a moment where one of them literally like there in the hallway,
the gunman is, he's in the classroom, active shooter situation in the classroom.
You see one of the cops like put hand sanitizer in his hand and
like just casual, like they're so casual, you're gonna see more of it.
So why don't we actually get to the first graphic here?
Because I want you to see this is just a still frame from the surveillance footage,
that the Austin American statesman obtained.
You see how heavily armed they are, right?
Like that visual is everything like there, they are on the scene,
they have their weapons pointed to the classroom, but they're not doing anything.
They're scrambling for keys to open the classroom.
They didn't even attempt to open the door, It was unlocked as we've now learned.
It's just, it's mind blowing.
But with that said,
I wanna go to the next clip because here you're gonna see it's terrifying.
The gunman has already entered the school.
He's firing his weapon.
And then a student who had been in the bathroom turns the corner and sees him.
So let's keep our mix up.
Let's take a look at this video.
So there's the gunman, he's walking toward the classroom and
then you can see on the left hand side.
There's a young student who comes around the corner as the gunman walks down
the hall, he gunman starts firing his weapon, student runs away.
At this point the gunman fires his AR 15 inside two classrooms for 2 and
a half minutes, authorities say more than 100 rounds were fired.
So again, it's not like there were no cops on the scene,
there were cops on the scene.
I don't know what the fate of that little boy was, I think he's okay, but
imagine how terrifying that is to be a student dealing with that.
>> Yeah, this goes to knock down another excuse, which was they thought it was
a barricade situation, kind of like a hostage situation.
That's where your supposed to take your time and
talked the guy out of it because you don't want him to shoot the hostages.
But as it turns out, he's actively firing in the school and
the cops are in the school.
So if he's actively firing, you have to go immediately because
the point of a hostage situation is you don't want him to start firing,
if you barrel in, he might start firing.
But if he's already firing, you got nothing left to lose except of course your
own safety and that's what the heart of the problem is.
And so look guys, everybody will beat up the cops and
they deserve to be beat up rhetorically, right?
But let's be honest, as we always tell you, it's in the police training,
they tell them and in this case they might say, look, no, wait, Jiang, there's
different training for hostage situations and their active shooter situations.
But the most important part of the training that they never talked about in
the press is take care of your own safety before anyone else's safety.
And that's why they didn't go in.
There's no excuses left.
>> Yeah, and look, that training conflicts with what the active shooter training
indicates they're supposed to do, right?
>> That's right, and they didn't do it.
>> Right, exactly.
So you have the head of the Texas public safety department saying, no,
this is an active shooter situation.
They should have went in immediately, but
you're right in that we see this messaging.
And this training play out in real time when we cover every
police brutality story, which is what's the saying junk better to be.
>> Judged by 12 than carried out by six.
>> Exactly. >> See that two cops nationwide,
that's the prime directive.
That's why even in an active shooter with kids and they hear and
see him firing at the kids, they still don't go in because the prime
directive is you're more important than any citizen.
>> Right. >> Do not endanger yourself under any
circumstances.
And that is exactly what should be the opposite of what cops are trained to do,
but instead all across the country.
And by the way guys, this is not just your body cops.
Almost every department in Texas was involved by the end because remember,
it took like an hour and 15 minutes.
And so the Texas Rangers were there, the state cops were there,
everybody was there and they all chose not to go in.
Why?
Prime directive cops, lives are more important than citizens lives.
Do not ever take a risk of your safety to save a citizen.
And that's disgusting.
>> So I wanna go to one more clip.
You're about to watch a video where the cops,
I guess attempted to enter a classroom where the shooter was.
And here's how that went down.
[SOUND]
Still
opening fire
and killing
students.
And you have again, not one, not two, but
several dozens of cops on the scene there in the hallway,
they hear the gunmen opening fire and they're not doing anything.
In fact the first time they try, they hear the gunshots and
they run away from the classroom.
So a few other details we learned based on the surveillance footage.
So at 12:21 which is 45 minutes after police first arrived on the scene,
four shots are heard and at least a dozen officers moved toward the classroom.
That's the video that you just saw an officer can be heard saying they're making
entry, yet they do not, they did not enter the classroom.
At 12:30 an officer wearing a helmet and a ballistic vest, pauses to squirt
hand sanitizer from a wall mounted dispenser and rubs his hands together.
Look it could be a nervous tic but it doesn't look good,
especially in the full context of this situation where you have
all these heavily armed cops there doing nothing.
The imagery of one of them putting hand sanitizer casually in his hands and
rubbing them together is infuriating to say the least.
At 12:50 a cadre of officers crouches outside the classroom,
a burst of gunfire is heard and the video ends, authorities have said a border
patrol agent is the one who ended up killing the gunman.
And I want to go to this final graphic that shows what the scene was like 77
minutes later, officers finally breached the unlocked classroom and
killed the gunman 77 minutes later.
>> Okay guys, you saw in the video shots fired at kids inside the school and
the cops don't go in, they're inside the school and they don't go in.
That's unacceptable under any definition, you'd have to be a monster.
I think that was acceptable.
Now let me tell you who they are, those monsters who did think it was acceptable.
The Yuval Police Department, the Volley County Sheriff's Department,
the Texas Department of Public Safety.
These are all the cops that were on the scene.
Texas Rangers, US Border Patrol and US Marshal Services.
I'll let the porter patrol off because they're the guys who actually went in at
the end and got them, okay.
Everyone else, they all stood there,
all their commanding officers told them prime directive.
Who gives a damn about the kids?
Save yourself don't take any risk with your health or
safety or your clean hands, okay.
>> To be fair, they were willing to do something which was handcuffed parents who
were demanding that they do something about the active shooter.
>> And if you're wondering, wait,
why don't we already have an exact account of what happened?
There's all those cops there.
They all know what happened, right?
The reason we don't have a good account of it and it's leaking out little
by little and not from the authorities is because they all wanna cover their ass.
>> Yeah. >> So and that's almost all
the cops in Texas.
>> Including the DA who didn't want that video to be released.
>> Of course, so all the cops are saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no.
We don't want you to know find out what actually happened.
And then I get there centering on a scapegoat and
it looks like it's the police chief in your body.
It's not to say that he didn't do something wrong.
But there I I'll tell you ahead of town what's gonna happen is everybody,
it was him, it was him, not us, not us, not us.
Because in situations like this they need a scapegoat.
Otherwise people find out what the reality is, which is that cops are trained
to be cowards and to protect themselves and not you.