Texas official gives blistering testimony criticizing law enforcement response to Uvalde shooting
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2022
- Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, gave devastating testimony at a hearing, during which he called the law enforcement response to the Uvalde elementary school shooting an "abject failure." Watch his remarks here.
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Abolish Police Nationwide!!
Vote Blue 2022 to GET. IT. DONE!!!
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@@la_sn3ak3r19 💯 👍 💙💙💙
The on scene Commander I was just following orders just an excuse for dereliction of duty and cowardice chicken s***
That 40 billion dollars we give to Ukraine we did take that back and use it to turn every American School into a fortress
Yeah the blue team's doing so great the economy's just great the price of living down wages up violent crime all time lows in the big cities since no cash bail was a thing watch just a peaceful Paradise
Arrest the chief, fire the officers. They are pitiful.
I agree that's been obvious from the start. But it won't happen.
Exactly.
@E 100% true and that is best argument to takes the pigs'money. They serve no purpose.
@@V5Bs city government corruption?
arrest the teachers, arrest the principal, arrest the school board....they failed way before the cops did
The anger I feel towards those cowardly cops is immeasurable...
Same here
Same
More like the chief I give half blame to the reg cops but the chief is not getting away
Want to be treated like heroes and their blue line bull but when it comes down to it they corefused to protect and serve
after the video of the copwards I saw today, my blood is beyond boiling. my heart hurts for every one of those parents and loved ones lost because of the 'grown ups' abject failure on every level. we failed those babies & teachers who were slaughtered & terrorized while the cops cowered in the hallway. on 9/11 those heroes ran into the buildings in NY knowing they would likely not come out alive. that's true heroism.
I have no words. The amount of rounds being fired at those kids while officers waited just yards away, taking positions and cover in the hallway, is beyond incredibly shocking. EPIC FAILURE😡
Nah, it isn't shocking at all, it's what you might expect from a "drill"
Yards?! Try feet…INCHES away…RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DOOR IN THE HALLWAY!!!
I would say cops were taking positions and COWERING in the hallway.
BAloney. Very few rounds were fired after the cops arrived...except at the cops. 100-200 rounds were fired BEFORE the cops arrived. Almost all the victims were already shot and dead! Listen to the audio after the first cops arrived. A dozen shots fired at the cops...later some through the doors and walls at the cops. Almost none at the kids. He already shot them before the cops arrived.
@@markbouldin6513 Patently false. Even in a drill, you stack up & go in. The entire point of a drill is to neutralize the threat & effectively reduce the number of victims.
Col. McCraw thank you. Thank you for speaking for the children and teachers who suffered the greatest law enforcement failure of this century. I am a retired L.E. Of 38 years. To any officer who reads this... You have sworn an oath to protect. There is no guarantee that you will go home at the end of your shift. Remember, you are trained, equipped and prepared to use extreme violence in cases of violent aggression. There are some fates worse than death... Living with your failure for the rest of your life is...
Truth!
BALONEY!!
LEO training endangers unarmed unassuming American citizens, yet proves over and over to be utterly useless against a real armed threat. Pathetic breed.
This man is very intelligent and right. These officers and thier disgusting chief made a bad mistake by not charging in. Very bad. Especially kids who are begging. For thier lives. Disgusting
Well said !
The families who lost loved ones SHOULD sue the police department.
Agreed and I'm sure the families wipe the floor with them in court.
@@KissMahGrits look up qualified immunity before you get too excited about that idea.
@@brianmincher716 sadly yeah :/
It makes me angry and sick that police get so much funding and then do not allocate and use it responsible for training and officers who don't beat women and can manage to stay reasonably physically fit and when they don't do ANY of what they are supposed to do and instead cause HARM we cannot even hold them liable?!?
Police also shouldn't be able to investigate their own, they should always be held accountable by the citizens they are supposed to be serving, just like our politicians should be held accountable!
Unfortunately, the taxpayers will foot that bill. There is NO JUSTICE.
Within 3 minutes of the shooter entering the building, police were in the hallway with rifles. They could have saved all of those children. 21 people died because of law enforcement.
This on same Commander stuff is just an excuse yes Johnson Commander is the worst of the bunch they are all guilty of cowardice and dereliction of duty these officers knew that the unseen Commander wouldn't shoot them for disobeying his orders and trying to go in anyway they're not robots it's not like you can say some kind of cold and go slump over
Okay well
At least some of them could have been saved and that's the sad truth
They wasted that Golden Hour.
@meanmycat They weren't security guards they were funeral home employees going to check on him after he crashed the truck he was driving.
Imagine knowing that everytime that rifle went off… children were being cut down in the most horrific way.
Dressed from head to toe with tactical gear. The experience and training to handle the situation, you have the weapons you need to take the shooter out… and you did NOTHING to stop it!
Agreed. Imagine parents losing their youngs kids as well as unable to see the bodies bc of the state of mutilation they were in, that is so horrific. Condolences to victims, their families, loved ones. Stay strong :(
@@ShazeemKhan that is insane to say the least, my ❤😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏 goes out to each & evryone who had lost their love ones due to lack of common sense to spring into action as trained.... SICK2MYSTOMACH!!!
I’ve been a weapons and tactics trainer since 2007. I have NEVER heard of a single Law Enforcement agency that does NOT adhere to the post Columbine doctrine for active shooters. The rule is, if you as an officer are first on scene, you DO NOT wait. You do not waste time with gear, shields, SWAT, or anything else. If you are the only one, you go in and stop the killing as fast as possible. The fact that MULTIPLE officers waited is disgusting. Every single officer on scene should be fired and never be allowed to wear a badge again. The first officer should have stopped the threat.
The statistics don’t lie. Active shooters stop killing when they meet resistance. The fact that that agency could t even do that is disgusting. It is borderline criminal and the chief should definitely face charges.
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Facts! Guns are the only thing that can save lives in this situation.
This is what “officer safety” gets us.
400 cops on the scene, none intervened
@@VastGameMaster Pretzel Logic.
No one would have needed saving if guns weren’t there in the first place.
Give THOSE PARENTS what they RIGHTLY DESERVE… stop covering this up!!!!!!!!
I love texas with all my heart , but in this matter I feel ashamed of whom we are as texans
@Worst Case Scenario ok nft
Geesh, They're getting millions in gofundme's cash and a plush new school..... Dozens of victim's, not a tear one?.....
yes
@@markbouldin6513 in soviet Russia car drives you
theres a picture showing 5-6 officers holding 2 shields, wearing armor and helmets, with at least 5 assault rifles standing at the end of the hall... and did nothing for 46 minutes.
I know, unbelievable!
Wtf?
Was this treated like a training scenario? I don't understand how this could be acceptable, even to the officers on the scene.
This attack seems surreal because of the police cowardice shown so vividly to everyone. NOT ONE officer did their gut reaction, going in and eliminating the threat,each one knowing that those kids were dying in those classrooms. The mother who rescued her two boys deserves a Medal of Valor. She wasn't a trained police officer, she just went with her guts and courage.
You can't say "the officers would give their lives for the kids" when they had the chance and DID NOT give their lives for those kids... actually a female parent ran in and got her kids and evacuated 2 classrooms....
Exactly!
Total LIE. only the cops saved anybody in the classrooms. Nobody else
@@jwhome9319 How do you know its a lie?
@@danieltakawi9919 cuz it didn’t happen. No parent went into any classroom where the shooter was trapped by the cops.
20:39 "there's no doubt in my mind that those officers would have gone any one of them could have sacrificed their lives for those children anyone of them if they knew there was kids in that room" Well they knew there was kid's in that room and it took them an hour and 14 minutes to do anything about it I'm gonna say they valued their lives over the lives of the kids
You go in period!! How those people live with themselves is beyond me.
I was wondering the same thing how could they sleep at night how could their family respect them after that. If any time to disobey an order was more logical this was the time
@@isaiahk2139 They sleep just fine. They are harassing the mom who got her kids everyday now.
You got that Right 👍
How?
@@jwhome9319 How what?
this is insane. hopefully this gains the attention and outrage it deserves, EVERYONE should be horrified about EVERYTHING surrounding this shooting and the aftermath.
more quality family time with their children
more police training, better pay
not many people run into a fire unless your a volunteer
more Prayers
what happened to that in school
May Our Supreme Spirit be with us
@@auagphysical4563 How about doors that lock....doors meant to be used for an emergency lockdown. This woulds be far more feasible and effective than arming wussy teachers.
These officers that stood there and waited all this time did they think this on scene Commander would shoot them in the head for disobeying his orders of course not they had a choice and even if they thought that they were armed their election of duty is clear cowardice is clear for all of them the only thing Commander is the worst yes but they are all guilty they should all spend the rest of their life in a penitentiary
I bet if one of these officers had a child in that school I bet that unseen Commander wouldn't have stopped him from going in or I bet if one of these officers wife was a teacher in that school then that on scene Commander wouldn't have stopped that man from going in with he did these officers think on seeing Commander would shoot them for disobeying his orders of course they didn't they knew he wouldn't it was just an excuse for them for their cowardice
DID THEY SAY THEY WERE WAITING ON A KEY THEU DIDNT NEED!?!?!?!?! turn the Fn KNOB!
And yet the sheriff refused to answer questions. He should be removed instantly.
The only thing stopping them was them being cowards. They should have told the chief where to go & gone in.
Just goes to show how quick an investigation can be done when there is the will to do it.
Did we hear from Orredondo and the other officers who were with him?
No, we haven't.
So, there has been no investigation.
Quick? What was quick about this investigation?
@@carolwiese6825
In comparison to all others.
@@carolwiese6825 you clearly have zero experience with the police. Most investigations take months to years.
The report will be out tomorrow. This was just DPS trying to clear themselves.
My suspicions were correct. The classroom doors were never locked because those doors have classroom function locks which does not allow you to lock the door from inside of the room. The entire time those officers waited outside of the classrooms with an unlocked door while kids were dying. That makes my blood boil!!!
That is not what the testimony/investigation found.
@@jwhome9319 is that not what he said at 39:28 ?
@@dgenaraition No. He said the doors were in fact locked. ONE of the rooms might (or might not) have fully latched shut from a malfunction. He didnt , couldnt know. Sometimes it latched, and sometimes it didnt when shut. But the lock was definitely locked.
@@jwhome9319 Can you time stamp where he said those doors were locked? I thought I heard him say that those classroom doors were not locked whereas I probably missed the part where he said those doors were locked.
@@richardjm8092 I could if I wanted to. But I don't. You can watch it all again. He said it several times at least once in direct response to a question from the panel. Locked but possibly not secured(latched) because it was malfunctioning sometimes. But it could latch and secure, cuz the mechanism was locked.
I really hope that police chief chooses to take accountability for what he's done, if I was him I would end it now. How can you live with this?
More than just the police chief need to be held accountable. How about everyone else standing in that hallway? How about the tech companies monitoring social media and reporting those in the "school shooter community" who were sympathetic or encouraging this killer? Heads need to roll.
Good doors would have saved at least 80% of these people.
No one is also pointing blame at Greg Abbott & his weak loose gun rights & laws for 19 kids dead?
Greg Abbott give & protects gun rights over human lives. Especially over women's rights to their do whatever they want with their bodies.
HB1927, HB2622, HB1500, SB19, SB550, SB20, HB957.
The governor was joined for the bill signing ceremony by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Speaker Dade Phelan, Sens. Donna Campbell, Brandon Creighton, Charles Schwertner, and Drew Springer; Reps. Giovanni Capriglione, Cole Hefner, Tom Oliverson, Matt Shaefer, David Spiller, and other members of the legislature, as well as Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association.
Because the bills signed are designed to protect the rights of gun owners, LaPierre and the NRA had an interest in them becoming law. LaPierre was complementary for the work Texas legislators have done since 2015 expanding gun rights including campus carry, open carry and now constitutional carry.
"Freedoms Americans really agree on overwhelmingly are their constitutional right to own a firearm and their right to defend themselves and their families," LaPierre said. "In this increasingly dangerous world, people want to be able to protect themself. Thank God Texas is leading the way for the country in making that possible." 5NBCDFW new
@@johnogrady2418 yes, but dont deflect
Yes, the police failure to intervene sooner resulted in the deaths that could have been prevented if the injured could have had that Golden Hour to get to the ER and be saved.
I am pointing out the deeper failure of not having doors that locked. For the outside AND the inside doors to BOTH be unlocked is a terrible failure.
This horror could have been prevented before the police even arrived.
Our law enforcement training in Wisconsin, they trained us to immediately Rush in And stop the threat, no questions asked. It was very specific, get to the suspect as fast as you can and neutralize the threat. I have no clue what these officers were thinking or doing or how they train people there but this show of complete cowardice is on the hands of them.
SHAMEFUL, DISGRACEFUL, COWARDLY, AND, HAVE NO BUSINESS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT!!!! THEY TRAINED YOU WELL TO BAD THESE SO CALLED COPS FAILED TO DO THERE DUTIES.
Finally, a top cop that holds those cowardly Uvalde "cops" accountable! This testimony infuriated me and made me cry. 💔
I agree, the uvalde cops were cowards but this guy is to blame too!!! His people (DPS) were on scene as well and did nothing too!!! They could've said f*** this and ignored Arredando's orders and taken the initiative to breach the classroom and take out the shooter but they did nothing too just like the uvalde cops!!!!
Well, it's much better than the terrible press conference he was undoubtedly forced to hold a few weeks ago. He was massacred.
Did you actually listen to the testimony….obviously not. It was a disorganized cluster f@ck but hardly cowardice.
The only one he's holding accountable is the police chief there were 19 people in the hallway there is only one individual being named publicly... are they placed on administrative leave ???
Yeah his first interview wasn't too good...I mean tried but looked like he always wanted to cry but would catch himself...this interview is different because he is actually testifying
Col did a terrific job in giving us a detailed and accurate account of the massacre of children. Chief Arredondo failed, his officers failed us and everyone standing around doing nothing inside Robb elementary.
Our elected officials failed by allowing and continuing to allow the sale of these weapons, high capacity magazines, and large amounts of ammunition not only to an 18 year old but to anyone. People need to find a new less dangerous fetish instead of their gun fetish by misusing and abusing the 2nd amendment.
I saw that clip on You Tube and asked, "Why are there so many cops standing around and no one doing anything?"
@@Ma1nguy That's cops for you. If there's ever any actual danger they freeze
@@TheHauntedKiwi When danger comes in the form of gunfire they're the first ones out of there. Officer Safety! Officer Safety!
Dear GOD WHY DIDN’T THEY ACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what “officer safety” and qualified immunity does for us.
This is the first time I brought myself to try to watch this. I'm so damn angry. I can't imagine being a member of that community. I definitely cannot even imagine being a parent. I think I'd go off the deep end.
ditto. I'd swan dive into a rampage of vengeance
Hunting down the name of these officers and leaking them to the internet would do the trick.
Aredondo should be investigated & held accountable!
Based on his actions, so far he seemed guilty, w/all HIS EXCUSES & LIES!!!
The fact they didn't even try to take the shooter out or distract him from the exterior windows in some coordinated fashion goes to show how unprepared they were for the situation.
Agreed.
One of the LE had him in his gunsite but thought he needed permission to shoot. If shooter had been black he'd have 100 LE. Bullets in him.
@@lynnegackstetter2779 Everything isn't about race. The police have been under attack from the media and leftist Pols and that has created an environment of fear of being fired or prosecuted for making the wrong decision.
Having said that overall the police failed miserably in this situation.
@@lynnegackstetter2779 permission not required...but you make a good point.
Hearing this hurts. I can only imagine the pain the pain families are feeling. I 🙏🏾💚for their healing and peace. The police who did nothing need to be held accountable.
Sometimes in life you have your 5 minutes to shine even if you may die, these officers will be remembered as cowards.
If a teacher can shield her students from gun fire, cops can ignore protocol and barge in the door when they hear shots -pathetic
Exactly
Big talk when you are behind a screen. Have you ever stare into the end of an ar15 barrel? Really scary. It can blow you face off. I bet you be shaking and wetting your self before you even went into that classroom.
@@johnrambo1349 you’re a nut case. It DID blow those kids faces off, decapitated them ! Do you think the teacher who shielded her students from the guns was wetting herself ? Do you think she did that ? A cop is trained (supposedly) not to “wet themselves” and freeze in that type of scenario. There is no excuse for those lazy cops to have frozen in that scenario. You have no clue what I would do in that scenario . It’s pretty easy for you talk behind a screen too. 🙄
@@johnrambo1349 lmao if my kids in there… i dont think you understand tbh i wont waste our time just cause no one loves you enough to charge a shooter dont project that coward mentality to others.
The actions of these officers can not be excused simply because they were only following orders. How can we trust police to protect the communities they serve after an incident such as this?
It is a tough call to break rank and and go against the chain of command for ANY law enforcement officer.
Question is, "How can we trust parents to raise their crotch goblins in a moral and correct manner when parents are failing in so many ways?" Globally our country is ranked number ONE for the WORST parenting.
If you remember the natiz were just following orders when they killed millions of people
I am equally disappointed by them not just rushing in, but flipping command structure is much harder than you think.
But if they did, they will probably wouldn't have got in trouble.
As the cops say all the time: Admins (High ranking officers) are spineless civilians.
One of the reoccurring themes in the Ukraine/Russia war is that Russian soldiers cannot be effective in the field as they are only taught TO follow orders, so cannot make decisions on their feet...not so with the training by U.S., Canada etc...of Ukraine soldiers on the ground.
I bring this up, because the training our civil officers receive in North America is similar to U.S. and Canadian army training in the field. You have to be able to make decisions on your feet and act, it is literally an officer's duty.
@@janinewetzler5037 I'm not trying to sound mean but if what you say is true that means that about 19 officers stood outside of a classroom and I've never been to this school but you would think that they could hear kids inside of it and not one of them made the decision to enter to try and save the kids
When trying to unlock an already unlocked door the key will not turn! He never simply pushed the door! Instead He found every excuse under the sun to not go in!
"At this point there was no reason to believe that anyone in these rooms was still alive?"
How could you possibly know that?? Maybe some of the wounded hasn't died yet. Maybe a couple of kids managed to hide in a closet? Maybe you had a live kid laying on the floor playing dead? You don't know there's no one to save until you go in and look! In fact, one of the teachers was only wounded and likely would have been killed if the shooter had noticed he was still alive.
They bleed out for a long time because the cowardly cops didn't want to go in
Exactly! Even if a child can play dead for a while, it's incredibly hard to maintain when you're hearing shots being fired; and I wonder if those four single shots were because some child accidentally flinched, or was seen breathing, while playing dead?
Nearly an hour after the shooting began, Arredondo said "The door is _probably_ going to be locked." See 33:33 in the video for reference. Now, why would he use the word "probably"? If they had already checked, then he would know for sure. They *never even checked* the door! Unbelievable!
Didn't they evacuate other children from the other rooms? Wouldn't they have known the doors weren't locked after doing so?
Worse, in the very beginning, before the video footage was released, he told the media he had been trying key after key, "praying each time that this one will work" or something to that effect.
He never even TRIED at all, because the door wasn't locked.
@@zxyatiywariii8 I heard he was trying the keys on other nearby rooms in the hope of finding a master key that would work on all the doors. But as we now know that was a pointless exercise. (As an aside, shouldn't he, as the Police Chief of the School District, have already had a master key at the ready? Really shows a lack of preparedness.)
Why was there no alarm on the doors 💖😭😤😫😵👹👺😹
You can feel the anger in him every time I see anything about uvalde I feel the same way
He was there. He was one of the people who kept updating AFTER the fact.
@@mpunfun true but the chief of police for uvalde and his officers were the first ones on the scene before any other law enforcement agency got there.
So he's trying to say that they didn't know there was teachers and kids in the school.Not to mention to play stupid for 77 minutes.The kids were calling and the teachers long before that.These guys should be ashamed of themselves.
I feel disgusted at how the law enforcement responded to this tragic shooting! Should they respond effectively and immediately, many lives could be saved.
My thoughts go out to the parents, teachers and pupils at Robb elementary. I saw with my own eyes sitting in my living room in Southend , Essex , UK how the police waited outside the classroom suited , booted and fully equipped in their urban tactical uniform with big automatic weapons, ballistic shields and full bullet proof body armour and helmets while child after child used their mobile phones to call the services. I saw the police outside the school handcuffing and tear gassing desperate parents begging asking to go rescue their children themselves they even were willing to go in with the police as deputised citizens but were met with aggression including as I said tear gas and handcuffs. Cowards CANT be cops and EVERY law enforcement officer involved with that operation was a COWARD and they cant say they were not I SAW THEM with my own eyes. I hope ALL victims get JUSTICE and all COWARDS (The law enforcement there that day inside and outside) MUST resign NOW and have to give full evidence in any review about this tragedy made worse by their cowardice .
Wait is this in usa or uk
@@badgamer4385 think he's just saying he watched it on television in the UK.
THANK YOU, Took every word out of my mind, heart and soul.
Just think if that is the response can we really expect them to be pro active?
The cover up is worse than the cowardice,
Which was worse than the shooting...
It's not about the shooter anymore.... he's dead
I agree with you totally about those cops there are chickens, they don't need them
they waited an hour to unlock a door that wasnt even locked?! when they KNOW they couldnt lock the doors from the inside?!! they KNEW THE DOORS COULD NOT BE LOCKED FROM THE INSIDE SO WHY WOULD YOU EVEN THINK YOU NEED A KEY?!
and why didnt they even TRY the door~
How can they protect students in the classrooms if the doors do not lock from within? He could have shot many more students like fish in a barrel. The only officers who would have should have known that is the school police officers.
The officers never knew the classroom was unlocked because they didn't have the knowledge on how the classroom function lock worked.
Even without the knowledge, they still failed miserably because they never tried to turn the lever and open the door.
another excuse not to go in.
Not only that, Arredondo lied saying that he tried “dozens” of keys, one by one.
It's funny how fear can get one person shot 60 times but that same fear can allow a bunch of children to get murdered due to inaction.
The “PRIORITY OF LIFE ” is literally spelled out in Texas training materials for first responders:
1. the lives of innocent civilians come first,
2. then those of first responders,
3. and then, last, that of the offender.
There is no waiting for keys or shields or even for more police backup: police must act to neutralize the threat immediately, even if it puts their own life in danger.
Yet for some reason in Uvalde, the priority of life scale got catastrophically, disturbingly twisted.
The training material goes against natural survival instinct.
It's just impossible to hire heroes.
@@Matt-kt9nm Vetting and training can help FIND heroes though, and weed out cowards.
Chief Arredondo needs to be fired from police job and kicked off city council. He needs to be held responsible for his lack of action in the deaths of 21 precious lives!!!
What was the point of having the officers there then if they didn’t protect the kids and staff? They should be fired.
Fired & prosecuted to the full extent of the law in a change of venue from that corrupt town....
@@nancyj.ellington6407 exactly! They basically assisted the shooter by doing nothing and blocking parents who would have done something
@@nancyj.ellington6407 lookout pppppp
Mom ok I’ll p poopoo poopoo
From what I saw and heard on the real-time video, the police arrived about three minutes after the killer entered the school and the shooting stopped about two minutes later. That's FIVE minutes fom start to finish. A great initial response time but then nothing but cops standing around, occasionally shifting place and running up and down the hall for the next HOUR AND 20 MINUTES! W?T?F?!!
DISBAND this police department and de-certify ALL of those cowards. NONE of them should ever wear a badge or carry firearms. DISBAND THAT COWARDLY BUNCH. 😡😡
The saddest thing about this is that the duration of this video is about the same amount of time it took for anyone to successfully respond to the threat behind an unlocked door…
Why isn't anyone noticing the door being unlocked is because it was impossible to lock it from the inside. This is an obvious security flaw.
@@thunkjunk And that exterior door is a nightmare come true.
*Gross negligence, COWARDICE, dereliction of duty, incompetence, ineffective communication & unpreparedness resulted in the deaths of those innocent people in Uvalde. No matter how fast this guy talks or how many diagrams he puts up with time spaces misses, from the Governor to Chief of Police needs to be removed from their duties. TEXAS CITIZENS DO YOUR DUTIES SINCE THESE TAX PAID OFFICIALS REFUSE*
malfeasance
This is a little much....the Governor? The Chief of Police for sure, but otherwise that statement is a little much.
No JUSTICE UNTIL THE PEOPLE seek it for themselves.
@@christybrooks2837
Yes, Governor Abbott is a part of the coverup. He claimed he was lied to about the police's response and how "livid" he was, yet no one has been held accountable. The governor has the authority to get to the bottom of what happened, but he would rather focus on trangender kids than on why 19 kids were brutally killed in their classrooms when the police could have intervened.
@@christybrooks2837 Governor hot wheels was all in on the coverup at the beginning. That the truth is coming out now has nothing to do with Abbott, who has still done nothing to weatherize the grid.
TOO SAD. ACCOUNTABILITY ASAP🙏🇺🇸
Those kids are braver than all of those so called officers put together,
It doesn’t matter if a beat cop or the chief of the department shows up first. You go in. The chief was a coward. First on the scene as a first responder and refused to act. Then given out disgusting orders. Telling lower rank officers to stand down and wait. All of these point to him being incompetent leader and a coward. I hope he doesn’t have a job after this AT LEAST.
That just goes to show that those cops didn't wanna go in anyway. Let their kids would have been in that classroom or a brother in blue 🙄 They would have entered that classroom in a heartbeat.
What I can tell, officers online (Verified ones) are also disgusted too.
One police youtuber who was a SWAT officer was also disappointed and quoted he learned that the messed up plan executed violently as soon as they arrive beats the perfect plan executed 10 minutes later
@@muhfkajones 1-2 cops, you might be right. 20 cops? no way. there's no way 20 cops did NOT want to breach
@@joeyakathug5215 I watched Donut Operator
Kids: “Please help us! There's a guy in here shooting!”
Cops: “We need you to hold him off for one more hour until he run outta bullets!”
it's messed up your comment made me laugh lol but yeah those cops are cowards 100%
That's sad man. I taught school in Texas. Don't mess with Texas.
@@iamchrist1507 seems that Texas has the most cowardly policemen in the nation
Tackle
Just sad 😔
I hope there will be justice for those precious lives lost.
They're babies. It makes me extremely sad to imagine my daughter feeling that pain and laying there hoping me or momma can save her. It hurts so much. I'm so sorry for the parents and teachers that live with it. The police I hope they find peace or prison,but I don't wish hate on them or anymore ill will.
Listening to failure after failure is just insane!
In Texas can you charge charge the School Police Chief with criminal charges and put him in prison.
Not only did the chief Fail, the entire department FAILED the community. FIRE THEM ALL!
20:38 Excuse me? "if they knew there was kids in that room??" .....its a freaking school! you go in ....period! 54:45 This I agree with
The children were actually calling from the classroom as they were being shot! The cops commented on those 911 calls
“Train them on the breaching tools”. How about training them to check and see if the door is even unlocked first that would be a start.
Seriously 🤦
it's pretty easy to bust through sheet rock
How about firing them, taking their law officer licenses, no benefits or dismissal pay....
@@nancyj.ellington6407 sounds good 👍🏻
If this was a drug house bust .with cash ,drugs and guns inside.they would of busted right in . So No not more wasted tax dollars .as they already know how to break doors down .they in this case .just failed.then lied ,lied and lied .to the mayor,and tried covering up all that truly went on .till they knew camera,s seen everything . No excauses of how this was done .none. The kid was bullied in the first place.that pushed this kid. That is really where this seemed to all started .that schools always will not admit there is a major problem, sad sad sad .just goes to show what some schools think of our kids. Time and time again . Money money money . But kids last! We have seen this throu covid.
I’m extremely disgusted with the actions of those police officers and I understand miscommunication but at the end of the day they could’ve saved those children and teachers and they didn’t they shook in the hallway with there tails between there legs… they all should be fired
Wtf? Are you not concerned about how dangerous a classroom is when the door cannot lock from the inside? This is extreme negligence by the school, school board and teachers who never addressed their safety.
@@mallowmallow2070 Negligence from the school and the police can occur simultaneously. Mind you that if the door was able to be locked we'd have a completely different story.
Also, if the officers did breach the door and one or two officers were killed or injured before killing the shooter, we'd still have that open door to blame for that...not to mention all the dead kids.
@@mallowmallow2070 The teacher was interviewed and he told all the kids to pretend to sleep under some tables. He did this because he had time. Unfortunately, he was unable to lock the door and the gunman strolled in and casually shot everyone.
Do they all still have jobs? If so, why? And what about the guy who had a shot when the shooter was still OUTSIDE the building, his gun visible. That officer waited for permission to fire (allowing the guy to walk right in). Wow.
They all should be arrested you mean
"And finally, he waited for tea that was never needed"
Fire him. He deserves no explanation
Said same thing I COULDN'T live with myself point blank period !!!! I think the commanding officer froze he didn't kno what to do afraid to do wrong thing and he procrastinated ....that's why he should have spoke up and gave someone else someone that would have executed a rescue plan bc clearly he wasn't a LEADER and couldn't make the important decisions that needed to be made that day to save innocent lives!!! All I seen was like 20 men hanging out in hallways talking to each other while poor lil babies and teachers succumbed to injuries by pure evil! What kills me is where is security? Tell u one thing I come from big military family and watching all these men do absolutely nothing and act like pure cowards I definitely wouldn't wanna be In a war setting with this group!!!
I want to see his training & background.
What are qualifications for his job?
I read that he also sits on city council.
@@melsafken764 I live in a small town and u kno that doesn't surprise me one bit my brother actually lived in a town over from where this happened he said it reminded him of home I live in east TN and we have had our share of dirty police and politicians so yeah wouldn't surprise me small town like that .....ur right he definitely doesn't deserve his job this was a giant horrible mistake
I’m pro law enforcement but this has shaken my faith in the police
Be pro-good law enforcement. Always be ready to demand action against cops who are wrong, who are bad, who act in bad faith. Never blindly put your trust in anyone just because of the position they hold, but look at them with healthy skepticism.
This is horrific, this act of cowardice. There have been others. Things have to change.
I live in a high rise and now I'm paranoid about leaving my front door open on a warm day
100%
60% of uvalde city budget goes to their police. Look at this boot locker in the first reply lol
@TiptonMama how can you have this unwavering support in cops when we are talking about TEXAS COPS here. If you were to imagine some of the best cops in the country who care about law and order I think Texans would be the loudest defending their police…. Well here we are
So those classroom doors could not be possibly locked from the inside, and these cops were looking for the keys to get in? 🤔 WTF
Isn’t that the craziest excuse you’ve ever heard?
i wonder how many details he accidently left out :)
I've never seen a more craven degree of cowardice in all my 60 years.
The city of UVALDE needs to rise up and pres chargers against the mayor ,city manager, district attorney and all the coward pigs.
Where in the timeline did they handcuff the parents as their children were being murdered?
There was at lest one mom who was handcuffed for a while because she was trying to go in and get her kids. She was released and then ran in and got her kids out. Brave Mama!
The mother is being followed and harassed by the police.
see this is one of those instances where you break the chain, shots were being fired, that should have given them a clue it was not a barricaded shooter nor a shooter with hostages. What's more dissapointing is AN OFFICER DID go in but was tackled on the spot took away his guns and handcuffed the guy. This is such a clusterfuck of a situation and everybody except the victims are at fault here CLEARLY.
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Who tackled him?
@@melsafken764 other police officers. The guy got a message from his wife saying she was bleeding out so he wanted to get in there to save her. At least that's my understanding of the situation. I would double check to make sure.
@@jet100a
It's almost like they were protecting the shooter.
I can't imagine being a parent, made to stand around while your children could be dying.
@@melsafken764 whole thing is a nightmare. I'd say almost every single officer at the scene needs to be fired. I think the border patrol officer(s?) went in as soon as he or she arrived so they are the only ones who did their jobs if my memory and the information I have read is correct, so much is going around right now so be sure to double check.
@@jet100a
thanks for sharing info.
"It's not reasonable to expect that there's children or teachers in that room still alive." If he thinks like this Mccgraw shouldn't be in the position he's in!
So sad. Im sorry for these poor parents who lost their child. Bless you all !
what do you mean "i have no doubt that if those officers knew there were children and teachers in those rooms they wouldve done what was right?!" there were 911 calls coming from IN THOSE ROOMS!!
However it seems the 911 information was not relayed to the officers. WHY NOT? Now that is from media reports, so who knows if this is correct. But what do all the reports say? Who at 911 is accountable?
All they had to do is check the door to see if it was unlocked. The police were in the wrong. SAD
@@michellemugrauer8879 yes, just tragic...they could have busted the door to get in. It grieved me to see all they highly armed and protected guys "just waiting." You just have to go in and stop the killing.
"the" highly armed...
@@Dana9437
This police dept. geared up with EVERY item available, like military. THIS is one area where "defund the police" comes in...
How many officers, with how many different agencies were on site with every gear available?
Millions of dollars to different agencies. Over prepared, over staffed, too many different agencies, all our $$ wasted tax payer dollars.
So, next year these same agencies will use this as a way to ask for more funding.
THIS IS WHAT DEFUNDING is Abt. THIS is perfect example.
I appreciate the State of Texas transparency, I appreciate it VERY MUCH. Thanks to everyone involved for bring facts to light
I think you need to thank the Media, they all lied and covered it up and would continue to without the National Spotlight shinning on them. Get a clue.
Don't be so easily fooled..
Transparency is the last thing you'll get from government..
Maybe I missed the testimony of the police chief of schools, Orredondo, and the officers who were with him in the hallway for over an hour.
When did they testify?
Don’t you mean some want the truth to come out but many involved don’t want the truth to come out and tried to cover up a lot.sad. Bottom line .the law failed these kids and teachers period.
Bringing facts into light and taking action based upon the facts are, unfortunately, two separate matters.
One of the officers uses the term, "bro". That's a clear sign of incompetence.
Justice for the residents of Uvalde! The whole PD should be put on trial for the deaths of those kids!
Absolutely!
So while the police chief Arredondo was requesting for the key and testing keys on other classrooms to find the master key, it turns out the classroom door was unlocked the whole time! They never even checked it! That is so staggeringly incompetent, it defies all logic! PLUS they had equipment to breach the door anyways and also could have entered through a window. Wow.
They forgot what a window was just like they forgot their training.
@@natashacutiepie6074 just like daeny kind of forgot the iron fleet
@@raryraru Lol good one
DPS Director had given the public a detail timeline of the event, the parent were grateful for his truthfulness and candid opinion on this school massacre. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
This is devastating to hear.. Cowards need to be held accountable.
This breaks my heart. I can’t continue to watch last time I did my PTSD got so bad I was afraid to sleep for a month. Thank you for your service! There is nothing I have to contribute justifying my suffering!
Wow! This DPS head has really done his homework. He seems like an honest broker. We need more like him.
Well Noted, if you listen carefully, he has done his homework. However, he's still deflecting. Notice, how he deflects the situation about the back door he entered. Deflection, is NOT, transparency.
@@Ilikerainydayz I don't think he was there. He's the head of DPS so he was probably in Austin.
@@69ztang You're more than likely right about that, however as the head of the DPS, he had to throughly investigate this, to bring before the Texas Senate. And although, he seemed very professional and well spoken. I still don't believe he has all the details accurate. If you watch the video of Uvalde's mayor, the have several contradicting points. I just figured he was going to put everything aside an be 100% transparent and I just didn't see it. I'm a Texan. So yes it matters to me.
@@Ilikerainydayz
The mayor seems to be going after him, though, for speaking out.
Note that we have not heard from the police chief of school Orredondo, and the mayor appears fine with that, but not fine with head of DPS speaking frankly. The corruption seems to run deep in that town, and those who speak out are attacked and those who keep mum are shielded.
It's sad that McCraw's steadfast, honest, direct testimony seems so rare these days.
THANK you for posting.
Those Uvalde school cops in the video were so concerned about the possibility that they may get hurt that they were useless 😳 it was disgusting. Total cowards. Police officers, real police officer don't conduct themselves that way when lives are at stake . When kids are in danger.
WOW !
This man laid it out breathtakingly well and his understanding of First Responder docturine is on point. We NEED accountability and officers who will disregard these phony orders with the understanding that thier sacrafice will save countless lives.
This dude is culpable too. He should have demanded to know what the delay was and send more people in who would do the jobl He's cya.
He's one of the main ones covering everything up & leaking stuff 🤦🏽♀️
I don't care what department you work for or who's supposed to be in charge as a human being you should have stepped up and said I don't care if I have orders or not I'm going in there and saving these kids. I mean say you have two different police officers from two different jurisdictions and there's someone dying right in front of them are you not going to do anything because it's not your jurisdiction you're just going to sit there and let that person die? Then you don't need to be a police officer and you need to question your Humanity
Why on earth do we have classroom doors that do not lock from the inside of a classroom?
For fire safety
@@cmack7281 There are still doors that can be locked from the inside, but unlocked by twisting the handle from the interior. They’re also ADA compliant for fire safety.
It's mind bogglingly stupid. Teachers should carry the keys on a key ring on their persons so that kids can't lock them out.
Ummm.... so I am a Teacher. We DO have Bacholor's degrees and I, personally, passed FOUR certification exams to become a teacher. It REALLY DOES seem VERY stupid and naive that we are not carrying keys on our person and I would not be able to lock a classroom door from the inside.
@@jenniferhardy8073 What I was saying is that the only rationale I can think of for not having doors that are easily locked from the inside (ie. without a key) would be so that kids couldn't lock the teacher out. Then I was saying that the easy solution to that would be that teachers could be required by school protocols to have the key on their persons. Therefore (agreeing with you) they should have doors that are lockable from the inside.
You had freaking weapons!!! It doesn’t matter what type of weapon you have you freaking do something!!!!!!!!!! These were children with nothing!! Period
I appreciate the emotion in his delivery.
I am a first responder and I want to know what kind of radios they had that did not and did work and why in that school!
Shameful!!!
absolutely agree. SHOCKING RESPONSE.
Thank you Col McCraw for a factual, forthright briefing detailing the utter cowardice of the Uvalde police.
Listening to him smack his lips is making my stomach turn... this whole situation is unbelievable and it takes a lot to stay calm and h3sr what happened during that time period.
Tardive dyskinesia (speaker) meets misophonia (listener) 😶 I muted the audio & followed the transcript
I think it’s just the way he talks, not having to do with subject. I had a teacher before that talked like this because she made a lot of saliva, so when she would talk for a long time she would make that noise to keep the spit in her mouth. I think at some point it has to become a sort of tic
no one tried the door…. not one of those officers………
If only the officers knew it was impossible to LOCK THE DOOR! Who in their right mind would believe the classroom door could not be locked in case of an event like this?
@@thunkjunk idk, maybe the SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICE DEPARTMENT who should know what type of standard doors the school has. better question for you: who in their right mind plans how to get through a door for 77 minutes and never thinks once to TRY THE DOOR KNOB?
Negligence! Every aspect of this case is negligent. From the officers conduct to school doors!
Thank you someone Bringing up the *ACTUAL FACTS* of what needs to happen to stop these murderers
Thank you for being completely honest about every statement you make, Sir! You have gained my respect.
This state is WORTHLESS. My ancestors have been here for 176 years, and I am sick to my soul. This dump will not hold the proper people responsible. They never do. I hate greg abbott’s housekeepers, for failing to roll him into the deep end of the swimming pool.
Police are afraid to confront a suspect with a semi automatic weapon.
Isn't this the bottom line for out lawing their sale to the public?
Imagine if the same laws applied to weapons that apply to alcohol.
If bartender serves you excess alcohol & you leave the bar & get in an accident, they can hold the bartender/bar accountable.
No civilian needs military weapons.
and the manufacturers of these are not only getting richer, they take NO responsibility for the safety and use of their products.
Smarten up Texas!
It's scary how much rage and anger is being poured out into the universe.
Very.
This Chief needs to be investigated thoroughly, including his political background. #cheifwasinonit
Nissan sent Commander stuff is just an excuse these officers are not robots they knew what they were doing was wrong I bet if it was one of their children in there that aren't seeing Commander wouldn't have stopped them from going in with
During world war II guards at the concentration camp said I was just following orders say those guards would have disobeyed orders and tried to free the Jews that the concentration camp they would have been shot by their superiors now these officers don't have that excuse the unseen Commander would not have shot his officers for disobeying orders and trying to go in and save the children
And financial transactions?
At 19yo we invaded Iraq I had no body armor I had zero armor on our hummv and less that a year of training I crossed that boarder scared to death along with many other not a question asked our country call and we answered those BABIES didn’t call they cried they begged and they was hurt and those cowards listened and waited while they died the Supreme Court is responsible for this when they said police had no responsibility to protect ppl
Thank you for your service. Thank you for putting it in perspective.
Thank you for your courageous service! And....Exactly!
May the Lord bless all of our service men and women...you go where you don't want and fight when others don't in Jesus Name....
Ty for your service.
And it's horrendous that our military has less protection than our police who deal with our CITIZENS, not war.
So much wrong with ALL of this..
These officers were not dedicated! The commander should be held accountable for all these children that died and the two teachers. This act of the failure of the commander is unacceptable. He took an oath to PROTECT AND SERVE... WHAT A DISGRACE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. The law will make every excuse to take the attention off of them for the failure of this situation.