CNN's Evan Perez interviews Attorney General Merrick Garland about the Department of Justice's newly released report about the Robb Elementary School shooting. #CNN #News
What grinds my gears is that it will be almost 2 years since the tragedy, and not a damn thing has been done by the Uvalde DA. She needs to be held accountable and get the prosecution of these failures of law enforcement done!
You do realize cops/judges/DA's primary purpose is to make sure they are protected and receive no true accountability. And if these cops were ever held accountable there would be a republican on the jury that always sides with the police no matter the circumstances. Trump and his cult are HUGE cop lovers when it comes to asset forfeiture and arresting poor people and the powerless.
@oldcrowtj4937 Yes, it does. You had a bunch of cowards with guns that did nothing. If an AR15 instilled the fear of inactivity in them, then there shouldn't be AR15 in the public domain. The gun fetish among some people is actually a mental sickness. Why idolize and fawn over weapons? That's a sickness, period!
370 law enforcement officers and ONE shooter 🤯 how did 370 trained and armed law enforcement personnel stand outside for more than five minutes, one minute is impossible to comprehend.
The initial response were 11 officers. Lack of proper command structure lead to less qualified LEO inside while those more qualified to deal with the situation were assigned to secure the outer perimeter and confront parents showing up.
The American justice system moves too damn slow, deals can be made at the local restaurant in one sitting, but justice takes years while lawyers make $ millions..., WTF ???
It's infuriating when people completely refuse to do their job, as Garland did after accepting the position of Attorney General in the wake of a violent insurrection and coup attempt. After three whole years, none of the ringleaders have been held to account thanks to Garland's inertia and cowardly inaction.
How many people have been held without a trial??? It has been 3 years. Who has been convicted of insurrection after 3 years? You seem to not know much.
The families of deceased victims wanted full autopsy reports, they wanted to know what bullet hit their child and who's gun it came from. I don't know if the Dept. of Justice report even touched on that. I agree with you, everything in the report was already known.
Yep. We already knew this two years ago. The DOJ can't do anything so why the presentation? MEANWHILE IN PLACES LIKE CHICAGO A "UVALDE" HAPPENS EVERY OTHER WEEKEND. Will Merrick Garland will ever go to one of those cities and present a blistering report? Nope. This presentation was politically motivated. No other reason for it.
There were two reports by state entities. Neither go into the fine details or made meaningful recommendations. When the Uvalde Mayor requested DOJ to make a investigation, I commented it will be a slow, methodical process akin to a NTSB air crash investigation which gets into the minutia to provide meaningful recommendations. State investigations barely touched on the medical response. DOJ investigation on the medical response portion is case of holy s***, are you kidding me?
*Garland: Uvalde response made me ‘angry’ that there weren't more White people there onto whom I could impute my 2,000-year old ethnic hatred.* *-There, I fixed it*
No matter what your politics are, these are the facts : 1. The shooter was not trained in shooting so couldn't deal as much damage as possible. In other words, if engaged in fire fight, law enforcement should have been able to employ tactics and equipment. 2. Law enforcement, both that was officially empowered and was assisted to deploy, we're scared to enter. I don't know their reasons since the reasons above, they would have cleared it. They would rather hide than save the lives of the children and teachers. Even people and law enforcement that had their kids there were stopped from entering. 3. It's ironic that despite they all were wearing body armour and equipment far exceeding every day police, they still held back. Look at the everyday patrol officers that have to face daily threats from traffic stops, gangs, other crime. 4. Despite the right to bear arms, how much is too much when even law enforcement specialist are overwhelmed. No assault rifle ban. Weaponry that are brought to bear in areas of war, are now available on the street of civic life. 5. Sure, you may look cool and train but how much of that do you really need in every day life? Too many times weapons are brought in people knocking on doors to ask for directions, people protesting in the streets, vigilantes acting to stop the protestors. Now, we see shooters in schools, concerts, and Insurrectionist in our capital.
It made me angry too. I listened to the report last night and I'm not sure my comment even made good sense. Thank you again AG Garland for letting see what really happened. Texas politics needs a good house cleaning starting at the top. So if the whole state doesn't freeze today due to the incompetent decisions and actions of the governor, start scrubbing now.
Yeah. And Garland's lack of response on Trump Investigations for over a year makes me angry too. Biden should have sacked him ages ago and made Jack Smith AG. The Trump problems would be solved, he'd be in jail already doing time.
The Uvalde response is very much like Garland's Trump response. He should have dealt with Trump year's ago The country wouldn't be in half the mess it is now, and Trump would be in jail instead of threatening the country with 4 more years and beyond..
The medical response section in the report was horrifying with the lack of coordination. One EMT team returned to their ambulance with a patient only to discover the ambulance was gone. Another returning discovered medical supplies taken. Dead victims evacuated while live ones waited.
The department probably thought ‘it will never happen here’s, therefore received NO training in the event. So sad they did NOT react the way they should have and they should be held responsible for that unacceptable and horrendous reaction to that shooting.
1989 Stockton, Ca school yard shooting. The nation thought it was a one off, a California only thing. 1999 Columbine. Most of the nation, excluding Florida and Texas, realized need for action. 2017 Parkland. But Texas thinks we got guns to protect us. 2018 Santa Fe High incident, Texas realizes umm yeah, guess time to create response training.
We should all be angry when we understand that this tragedy occurred in a, Gun Free Zone. The school that this tragic mass shooting occurred, and was by law a, Gun Free Zone. We have an acted mini common sense gun laws designed to keep people safe, but the end result is we have made things worse. Gun free zones can include schools, movie, theaters, shopping centers, grocery stores, college campuses in any other location that has the gun free zone decal or sign on their property. If we look at the data, we will see you then the majority of mass shootings have occurred in gun free zones. Clearly, gun, free zones are the most dangerous places in America. Use caution when you enter one of these Godfree zones because you’re in danger.
Garland one of most ineffective Officials we have now !! What is he talking about - he was angry. If he was present during this ordeal - he’d be hiding under a table!
Texas agencies stood around doing nothing. It was a federal agency, the Border Patrol that had to step in and neutralize the perp. Texas DPS could have done so much earlier, but nope.
Garland's more worried about even application of the law to two rival political family groups who have legit broken the law and trying to keep the public informed on equal application of the laws based on party. 😶
He wants to talk about everything but Trump being held accountable the guy is waltzing around without a care in the world Judges are almost throwing him out of the court room.. Garland has nothing to say
What the government needs to do is stop sending money to other countries and put armed retired police officers and military personnel in all schools, colleges and universities..
The Uvalde report was far more critical, finding failures in leadership, command and coordination. It stated that officers wrongly treated the situation as a barricaded suspect incident instead of one in which a shooter was an active threat to children and teachers. Officers should “never” treat an active shooter with access to victims as a barricaded suspect - especially in a school, where there is a “high probability” of potential victims and innocent civilians being present, the report stated. Officers had multiple indicators that should have made it clear they were facing an active shooter, including 911 calls from children and teachers pleading for help, a dispatcher’s announcement minutes after officers arrived that students were likely in the classroom with the shooter, and an Uvalde school police officer announcing that his wife had called to tell him she had been shot, according to the report. Gupta condemned the medical response, saying that after police breached the classroom and killed the gunman, dead victims were placed in ambulances while children with bullet wounds were put on school buses. Many of those findings were revealed in a 2022 investigation by the Tribune, ProPublica and The Washington Post that determined medical responders did not know who was in charge and that two students and a teacher who later died still had a pulse when they were rescued from the school.
Uvalde school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who was listed as the incident commander in the district’s active-shooter plan, had the “necessary authority, training and tools” to lead the response but did not provide “appropriate leadership, command and control,” the report found. Arredondo could not be reached for comment Thursday through his attorney. He has previously defended his actions and those of others involved in the response. Beyond that, no leader from any of the other responding agencies “effectively questioned the decisions and lack of urgency” demonstrated by Arredondo and Uvalde Police Department Acting Chief Mariano Pargas, who both arrived at the school within minutes of the first round of gunfire. The report listed Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco, Uvalde County Constables Emmanuel Zamora and Johnny Field, and an unidentified Texas Ranger as examples of such leaders.
Law enforcement training academies must ensure that active shooter training instructs officers on how to distinguish between active threats and barricaded or hostage situations, the report said. Officers should be prepared to approach the threat using the tools they have with them, which are often standard firearms. They should not wait for specialized equipment or tactical teams if they know that people are injured, the report stated. The Tribune reported early last year that some officers were afraid to confront the gunman because he had an AR-15 rifle.
It certainly is a tragedy. What happened to the children at that elementary school and that there was nobody ever held accountable in their place for us for not going after the killer let alone in the children to be killed and the teacher in that room killed when they easily could’ve gone into that classroom and killed the man who was killing those children. I doubt there will ever be any accountability. By any of the police force, or the sheriff, or anyone who should’ve protected those children. There are still children who were injured, or or who was suffered trauma for the rest of their lives for what they saw thank goodness the school was torn down. God bless the families and the children who survived.
Hindsight is 20/20 and there will never be a good reason for the cowardice shown by law enforcement on that day.. even more so that there was only two rooms in the entire school 😞
Real lack of accountability on all sides here. Lack of training for 1st responders, lack of commiunications between offiers/units, big f*** up here and the only person responsible for all of this is the person who did not do their job! Who was that? Who is/was responsbile for all of this training that the cops never had and such a lack of communicationn during this life/death situation? You can start by holding those in charge accountable! Sickenign! How do these apparent "first resonders" even get hired? Hope to see a lot of civil suits in this case.
The document is titled Active Shooter Response for School-Based Law Enforcement, published by The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement as training course 2195. YT algorithm rejected attempt to post the link. They had the training, but failed to follow through. On paper their state training is really good. In practice for both law enforcement and that school district, it sucks or as the co author of the training program put it: It was not a lack of equipment, it was a lack of commitment. Comparatively in my area of Northern California, law enforcement and schools regularly conduct drills. The Nashville area Christian school incident response was an example of how our agencies would respond to quickly neutralize an attacker. Tennessee basically uses the CA model. It is well recognized that whoever is incharge of the turf, that agency is incharge. It started with the perp crashing his vehicle and opening fire on good samaritans checking on the crash. The school chief incorrectly believed he was not in charge as the event started off campus. The acting city chief, a lieutenant, deferred to the higher ranking school chief. The two failed to coordinate with each other. As I recall unified command is supposed to be set up within the first 10 minutes to coordinate all responding agencies, including fire and medical. The locals figured once the Border Patrol tactical team arrives done deal. The locals had the capability. One of the first responders was incharge of the local SWAT. Border Patrol being a federal agency had to get permission from DC to override local law enforcement because they could not figure out who was incharge.
Law enforcement agencies across the country should immediately prioritize active shooter training, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday as he released a scathing report about the handling of the 2022 massacre in Uvalde in which lives could have been saved if training protocols had been followed.
The report’s findings about the failure to follow protocol and the lack of sufficient training to prepare officers for a mass shooting largely mirrored the flaws revealed in a Texas Tribune, ProPublica and FRONTLINE investigation published last month that found that states require students and teachers to receive far more training to prepare them for a mass shooting than they require for the police. At least 37 states require schools to conduct active-shooter-related drills, nearly all on an annual basis. But Texas is the only state that mandates that all of its police officers complete repeated training, at least 16 hours every two years. That requirement was implemented after the Uvalde shooting.
Garland said the report was produced in an effort to offer lessons that would hopefully better prepare law enforcement across the country to respond to future mass shootings. It offered recommendations that included requiring all agencies in a region to train together and providing officers across the country with at least eight hours of active shooter training annually.
Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, said in an interview that he appreciates the emphasis the Department of Justice placed on widespread active-shooter training. Still, Canady said he is frustrated that leaders have not already learned that “25-year-old lesson” after the shootings at Columbine High, Sandy Hook Elementary and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The district attorney and the Texas Department of Public Safety have fought the release of records related to the shooting, prompting news organizations, including ProPublica and the Tribune, to sue. A Travis County district judge ruled in the newsrooms’ favor last month, but DPS appealed. The agency did not respond to requests for comment about the Justice Department’s report. Gov. Greg Abbott, who initially praised the response and later said he was misled, released a statement thanking the Justice Department. He said the state has already adopted some of the recommended measures and would review others.
An outside review of that incident found that Florida officers, who waited three hours to take down the shooter, mostly followed best practices, although it stated that the law enforcement agencies in Orlando should update their training and policies. In multiple after-action reviews, including the Pulse report, authors opted not to criticize significant law enforcement delays during mass shootings, according to an analysis of more than three dozen of these reports by ProPublica, the Tribune and FRONTLINE.
@@palace927 What part is lies? the fact that CNN has countless videos espousing the defund the police, but now that it becomes an inconvenient truth you deny it? lol
Another stupid person not understanding what they mean by defund the police. Let's focus on the real issue is that people lost there lives and their hasn't been any accountability. Your statement is despicable!
Easy to say law enforcement should just charge in without regard for their own lives to save lives. You can have that in a daily morning pledge but when you are facing an AR-15 and you have a hand gun and the shooter knows what he is doing and is essentially in a bunker aiming out into a long corridor not many would charge into the line of fire. What if the first 4 or 5 guys get gunned down will you still say if you accepted the job you should just charge in regardless? Tremendous tragedy, its hard to find absolute answers when our society depends on people to not commit these insane heinous acts.
When you have millions in military grade equip. You pride yourself on being some sort of paramilitary op and even get immunities military personnel doesnt even get... Yes, then you posed to act just like they do, protect and serve knowing you may not make it back home.
interesting defense of a cowardice. they chose to be in the profession of a police officer. their job is to protect and serve the community and they didn’t that day. if the AR-15 is that scary then maybe normal civilians shouldn’t have access to it. the second amendment just states the right to bear arms; just not what arms. if an AR-15 can cause 77 mins of inaction then it probably shouldn’t be allowed.
You forgot to add "as a lifelong asshole..." You're a real piece of work. You are definitely one who would have stood around armed for combat shivering in fear and threatening parents while this tragedy went down.
What grinds my gears is that it will be almost 2 years since the tragedy, and not a damn thing has been done by the Uvalde DA. She needs to be held accountable and get the prosecution of these failures of law enforcement done!
Abbott doesn’t want her to do anything
Agreed.
And even with report I feel like we wont get justice for anyone
Literally one of the saddest part of the aftermath is the DA. She needs to gooooo!
Uvalde is controlling by democrat policies.
You guys ain’t wake up?
You do realize cops/judges/DA's primary purpose is to make sure they are protected and receive no true accountability. And if these cops were ever held accountable there would be a republican on the jury that always sides with the police no matter the circumstances. Trump and his cult are HUGE cop lovers when it comes to asset forfeiture and arresting poor people and the powerless.
This really does away with the whole good guy with a gun counter argument to gun control
No it doesn't. Thank God for The 2nd Amendment.
Having a gun is only half the equation.. you need Balls to use it too
@oldcrowtj4937 Yes, it does. You had a bunch of cowards with guns that did nothing. If an AR15 instilled the fear of inactivity in them, then there shouldn't be AR15 in the public domain. The gun fetish among some people is actually a mental sickness. Why idolize and fawn over weapons? That's a sickness, period!
@@CM-sm6rsyou can defend yourself how you want , I’ll do the same !
@@ghoraxe9000 Lol, you guys keep moving the goal post. Just admit that the second amendment as it currently is interrupted is not sustainable
It was a portrait of cowardice with deadly consequences..
has anybody seen gov. abbott ?
Nope he's hiding he just killed 2 kids and a mom
@@tanyasteers4802and polishing his wheel chair to get sympathy
Exactly 🙄😑
It's not his place to do anything. It's not Garland's either but they need to politicize it.
The total lack of action from this AG concerning the actions of Trump on Jan 6, for over 2 years, is sickening.
Just because you own a gun does not mean you have the testicular fortitude to use it.
This was ridiculous, just get in there. Go go go. Unbelievable that they stood down.
370 law enforcement officers and ONE shooter 🤯 how did 370 trained and armed law enforcement personnel stand outside for more than five minutes, one minute is impossible to comprehend.
The initial response were 11 officers. Lack of proper command structure lead to less qualified LEO inside while those more qualified to deal with the situation were assigned to secure the outer perimeter and confront parents showing up.
They investigated themselves scolding themselves and everyone got promotions.
The American justice system moves too damn slow, deals can be made at the local restaurant in one sitting, but justice takes years while lawyers make $ millions..., WTF ???
Still silence from Fox News on this topic.
They still wont recognize the numerous times Border Patrol has responded to bail out local Texas police in mass shootings.
It's infuriating when people completely refuse to do their job, as Garland did after accepting the position of Attorney General in the wake of a violent insurrection and coup attempt. After three whole years, none of the ringleaders have been held to account thanks to Garland's inertia and cowardly inaction.
How many people have been held without a trial??? It has been 3 years. Who has been convicted of insurrection after 3 years? You seem to not know much.
You must be completely insane.
Biden and Kamala are refusing to do their job,
@@stevepaul2262/ To my knowledge, nobody has been charged with “ Insurrection “.
What violence? A white woman gunned down by a black?
In my opinion.
Over a year and a half to figure out what everybody knew ❗️
Yeah really.😩
The families of deceased victims wanted full autopsy reports, they wanted to know what bullet hit their child and who's gun it came from. I don't know if the Dept. of Justice report even touched on that. I agree with you, everything in the report was already known.
Yep. We already knew this two years ago. The DOJ can't do anything so why the presentation? MEANWHILE IN PLACES LIKE CHICAGO A "UVALDE" HAPPENS EVERY OTHER WEEKEND. Will Merrick Garland will ever go to one of those cities and present a blistering report? Nope. This presentation was politically motivated. No other reason for it.
There were two reports by state entities. Neither go into the fine details or made meaningful recommendations. When the Uvalde Mayor requested DOJ to make a investigation, I commented it will be a slow, methodical process akin to a NTSB air crash investigation which gets into the minutia to provide meaningful recommendations. State investigations barely touched on the medical response. DOJ investigation on the medical response portion is case of holy s***, are you kidding me?
*Garland: Uvalde response made me ‘angry’ that there weren't more White people there onto whom I could impute my 2,000-year old ethnic hatred.*
*-There, I fixed it*
He has armed security
Your kid has a sign on the door
Usually a sign on school property saying “Gun free zone”.🙃
Damn, this actually made me tear up. Those poor babies :(
Society needs to pick a lane. Either the cops should be trained to be warriors or social workers. What we got in Texas was the worst of the middle.
society needs to enact GUN CONTROL LAWS
My heart aches for the families who lost their loved ones in this horrendous attack on the innocent. May they all R.I.P.
No matter what your politics are, these are the facts :
1. The shooter was not trained in shooting so couldn't deal as much damage as possible. In other words, if engaged in fire fight, law enforcement should have been able to employ tactics and equipment.
2. Law enforcement, both that was officially empowered and was assisted to deploy, we're scared to enter. I don't know their reasons since the reasons above, they would have cleared it. They would rather hide than save the lives of the children and teachers. Even people and law enforcement that had their kids there were stopped from entering.
3. It's ironic that despite they all were wearing body armour and equipment far exceeding every day police, they still held back. Look at the everyday patrol officers that have to face daily threats from traffic stops, gangs, other crime.
4. Despite the right to bear arms, how much is too much when even law enforcement specialist are overwhelmed. No assault rifle ban. Weaponry that are brought to bear in areas of war, are now available on the street of civic life.
5. Sure, you may look cool and train but how much of that do you really need in every day life? Too many times weapons are brought in people knocking on doors to ask for directions, people protesting in the streets, vigilantes acting to stop the protestors. Now, we see shooters in schools, concerts, and Insurrectionist in our capital.
It made me angry too. I listened to the report last night and I'm not sure my comment even made good sense. Thank you again AG Garland for letting see what really happened. Texas politics needs a good house cleaning starting at the top. So if the whole state doesn't freeze today due to the incompetent decisions and actions of the governor, start scrubbing now.
Yeah. And Garland's lack of response on Trump Investigations for over a year makes me angry too. Biden should have sacked him ages ago and made Jack Smith AG. The Trump problems would be solved, he'd be in jail already doing time.
The Uvalde response is very much like Garland's Trump response. He should have dealt with Trump year's ago
The country wouldn't be in half the mess it is now, and Trump would be in jail instead of threatening the country with 4 more years and beyond..
Yeah right, like Garland is the embodiment of alacrity.
The medical response section in the report was horrifying with the lack of coordination. One EMT team returned to their ambulance with a patient only to discover the ambulance was gone. Another returning discovered medical supplies taken. Dead victims evacuated while live ones waited.
Over 300 some odd cowards as far as I can tell. If you can’t or aren’t willing to do the job then quit.
Just remember, the guys name is: Merittless Garland!
The department probably thought ‘it will never happen here’s, therefore received NO training in the event. So sad they did NOT react the way they should have and they should be held responsible for that unacceptable and horrendous reaction to that shooting.
Adults don't need training to know you act to save children.
That's a basic instinct.....and if you don't have that then you won't ever have it
1989 Stockton, Ca school yard shooting. The nation thought it was a one off, a California only thing.
1999 Columbine. Most of the nation, excluding Florida and Texas, realized need for action.
2017 Parkland. But Texas thinks we got guns to protect us.
2018 Santa Fe High incident, Texas realizes umm yeah, guess time to create response training.
Merrick who?
We need effective gun laws
They wrote a report, #amazeballs
We should all be angry when we understand that this tragedy occurred in a, Gun Free Zone. The school that this tragic mass shooting occurred, and was by law a, Gun Free Zone. We have an acted mini common sense gun laws designed to keep people safe, but the end result is we have made things worse. Gun free zones can include schools, movie, theaters, shopping centers, grocery stores, college campuses in any other location that has the gun free zone decal or sign on their property. If we look at the data, we will see you then the majority of mass shootings have occurred in gun free zones.
Clearly, gun, free zones are the most dangerous places in America. Use caution when you enter one of these Godfree zones because you’re in danger.
Garland looks like he’s trying to divert attention on him for other things….
Up yours, Garland. Uvalde responded about as fast as you did with trump.
Build a heart, brain and backbone so you can be declared human.
You're worthless.
@@greatwhitebuckwheat791 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Garland one of most ineffective Officials we have now !! What is he talking about - he was angry. If he was present during this ordeal - he’d be hiding under a table!
This would have ended twice as worse if Garland and his DOJ had been the first responders
My goodness your post is idiotic.
Trump loves people who are poorly educated and you're one of them.
They might take their time, but they won't miss...
Texas agencies stood around doing nothing. It was a federal agency, the Border Patrol that had to step in and neutralize the perp. Texas DPS could have done so much earlier, but nope.
Garland's more worried about even application of the law to two rival political family groups who have legit broken the law and trying to keep the public informed on equal application of the laws based on party.
😶
He wants to talk about everything but Trump being held accountable the guy is waltzing around without a care in the world Judges are almost throwing him out of the court room.. Garland has nothing to say
What the government needs to do is stop sending money to other countries and put armed retired police officers and military personnel in all schools, colleges and universities..
Democrat policies. End story. You guys don’t get it
The Uvalde report was far more critical, finding failures in leadership, command and coordination.
It stated that officers wrongly treated the situation as a barricaded suspect incident instead of one in which a shooter was an active threat to children and teachers. Officers should “never” treat an active shooter with access to victims as a barricaded suspect - especially in a school, where there is a “high probability” of potential victims and innocent civilians being present, the report stated.
Officers had multiple indicators that should have made it clear they were facing an active shooter, including 911 calls from children and teachers pleading for help, a dispatcher’s announcement minutes after officers arrived that students were likely in the classroom with the shooter, and an Uvalde school police officer announcing that his wife had called to tell him she had been shot, according to the report.
Gupta condemned the medical response, saying that after police breached the classroom and killed the gunman, dead victims were placed in ambulances while children with bullet wounds were put on school buses. Many of those findings were revealed in a 2022 investigation by the Tribune, ProPublica and The Washington Post that determined medical responders did not know who was in charge and that two students and a teacher who later died still had a pulse when they were rescued from the school.
Uvalde school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who was listed as the incident commander in the district’s active-shooter plan, had the “necessary authority, training and tools” to lead the response but did not provide “appropriate leadership, command and control,” the report found. Arredondo could not be reached for comment Thursday through his attorney. He has previously defended his actions and those of others involved in the response.
Beyond that, no leader from any of the other responding agencies “effectively questioned the decisions and lack of urgency” demonstrated by Arredondo and Uvalde Police Department Acting Chief Mariano Pargas, who both arrived at the school within minutes of the first round of gunfire. The report listed Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco, Uvalde County Constables Emmanuel Zamora and Johnny Field, and an unidentified Texas Ranger as examples of such leaders.
Law enforcement training academies must ensure that active shooter training instructs officers on how to distinguish between active threats and barricaded or hostage situations, the report said. Officers should be prepared to approach the threat using the tools they have with them, which are often standard firearms. They should not wait for specialized equipment or tactical teams if they know that people are injured, the report stated.
The Tribune reported early last year that some officers were afraid to confront the gunman because he had an AR-15 rifle.
Me too, but I understand fear can paralyze and the leadership here seems to have been affected.
Stop wasting time pointing fingers and talking about it. Take action, do something about it.
How do you manage to live with your own cowardice as a police officer after this?
How many police officers have been prosecuted?
Moving forward, I hope corrective action is attached to this.
Sometimes they don't love you, they just love how you love them.
First
2/3 of Uvalde voters voted for Trumpf in 2020.
End qualified immunity asap.
except DOJ late response for the trump's shenanigans also makes people angry Mr. Garland...mygreathanks and blessings😇
It certainly is a tragedy. What happened to the children at that elementary school and that there was nobody ever held accountable in their place for us for not going after the killer let alone in the children to be killed and the teacher in that room killed when they easily could’ve gone into that classroom and killed the man who was killing those children. I doubt there will ever be any accountability. By any of the police force, or the sheriff, or anyone who should’ve protected those children. There are still children who were injured, or or who was suffered trauma for the rest of their lives for what they saw thank goodness the school was torn down. God bless the families and the children who survived.
Hindsight is 20/20 and there will never be a good reason for the cowardice shown by law enforcement on that day.. even more so that there was only two rooms in the entire school 😞
Let's go Brandon
Real lack of accountability on all sides here. Lack of training for 1st responders, lack of commiunications between offiers/units, big f*** up here and the only person responsible for all of this is the person who did not do their job! Who was that? Who is/was responsbile for all of this training that the cops never had and such a lack of communicationn during this life/death situation? You can start by holding those in charge accountable! Sickenign! How do these apparent "first resonders" even get hired? Hope to see a lot of civil suits in this case.
The document is titled Active Shooter Response for School-Based Law Enforcement, published by The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement as training course 2195. YT algorithm rejected attempt to post the link. They had the training, but failed to follow through. On paper their state training is really good. In practice for both law enforcement and that school district, it sucks or as the co author of the training program put it: It was not a lack of equipment, it was a lack of commitment. Comparatively in my area of Northern California, law enforcement and schools regularly conduct drills. The Nashville area Christian school incident response was an example of how our agencies would respond to quickly neutralize an attacker. Tennessee basically uses the CA model. It is well recognized that whoever is incharge of the turf, that agency is incharge. It started with the perp crashing his vehicle and opening fire on good samaritans checking on the crash. The school chief incorrectly believed he was not in charge as the event started off campus. The acting city chief, a lieutenant, deferred to the higher ranking school chief. The two failed to coordinate with each other. As I recall unified command is supposed to be set up within the first 10 minutes to coordinate all responding agencies, including fire and medical. The locals figured once the Border Patrol tactical team arrives done deal. The locals had the capability. One of the first responders was incharge of the local SWAT. Border Patrol being a federal agency had to get permission from DC to override local law enforcement because they could not figure out who was incharge.
I wonder how their coordination is going nowadays.
What is a "military grade weapon"?
Gun was modified with an aftermarket add on auto fire mechanism.
@@nomenclature9373 those are already illegal.
Law enforcement agencies across the country should immediately prioritize active shooter training, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday as he released a scathing report about the handling of the 2022 massacre in Uvalde in which lives could have been saved if training protocols had been followed.
The report’s findings about the failure to follow protocol and the lack of sufficient training to prepare officers for a mass shooting largely mirrored the flaws revealed in a Texas Tribune, ProPublica and FRONTLINE investigation published last month that found that states require students and teachers to receive far more training to prepare them for a mass shooting than they require for the police. At least 37 states require schools to conduct active-shooter-related drills, nearly all on an annual basis. But Texas is the only state that mandates that all of its police officers complete repeated training, at least 16 hours every two years. That requirement was implemented after the Uvalde shooting.
Garland said the report was produced in an effort to offer lessons that would hopefully better prepare law enforcement across the country to respond to future mass shootings. It offered recommendations that included requiring all agencies in a region to train together and providing officers across the country with at least eight hours of active shooter training annually.
Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, said in an interview that he appreciates the emphasis the Department of Justice placed on widespread active-shooter training. Still, Canady said he is frustrated that leaders have not already learned that “25-year-old lesson” after the shootings at Columbine High, Sandy Hook Elementary and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The district attorney and the Texas Department of Public Safety have fought the release of records related to the shooting, prompting news organizations, including ProPublica and the Tribune, to sue. A Travis County district judge ruled in the newsrooms’ favor last month, but DPS appealed. The agency did not respond to requests for comment about the Justice Department’s report.
Gov. Greg Abbott, who initially praised the response and later said he was misled, released a statement thanking the Justice Department. He said the state has already adopted some of the recommended measures and would review others.
An outside review of that incident found that Florida officers, who waited three hours to take down the shooter, mostly followed best practices, although it stated that the law enforcement agencies in Orlando should update their training and policies.
In multiple after-action reviews, including the Pulse report, authors opted not to criticize significant law enforcement delays during mass shootings, according to an analysis of more than three dozen of these reports by ProPublica, the Tribune and FRONTLINE.
So sad but this is Democrats fault
Traitor for Trump
This is proof that there is no god. No god would create a human this stupid.
@@palace927 Republican tried to fix shooting at schools Democrats turned it down.
Columbine happened in 1999. Most states began developing response training, but not Texas.
What happened to defund the police and vilify all police? no? Not interested in it any more when they don't come help when you are whining? aww
Lies
@@palace927 What part is lies? the fact that CNN has countless videos espousing the defund the police, but now that it becomes an inconvenient truth you deny it? lol
Another stupid person not understanding what they mean by defund the police. Let's focus on the real issue is that people lost there lives and their hasn't been any accountability. Your statement is despicable!
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Im so glad hes not on the supreme court. Mcconnel saved america.
Yeah agreed, I guess you prefer Clearance Thomas
@@cleme4102
I've never supported Affirmative Action.
Who put Garland in his post? Trump or Biden.
@@spotty67 the New York Democratic Marxists.
I disagreed when McConnell did it but in hindsight it was the right thing.
Turtle man angry, how about getting angry about the border 1 time. Stead of just watching silently. Treasonous
What happened to that wall we were promised...?
The DOJ needs to know what the inside of a jail cell looks like for the next 20 years
Easy to say law enforcement should just charge in without regard for their own lives to save lives. You can have that in a daily morning pledge but when you are facing an AR-15 and you have a hand gun and the shooter knows what he is doing and is essentially in a bunker aiming out into a long corridor not many would charge into the line of fire. What if the first 4 or 5 guys get gunned down will you still say if you accepted the job you should just charge in regardless? Tremendous tragedy, its hard to find absolute answers when our society depends on people to not commit these insane heinous acts.
If Uvalde police wanted to be cowards, they should pick another career.
When you have millions in military grade equip. You pride yourself on being some sort of paramilitary op and even get immunities military personnel doesnt even get... Yes, then you posed to act just like they do, protect and serve knowing you may not make it back home.
interesting defense of a cowardice. they chose to be in the profession of a police officer. their job is to protect and serve the community and they didn’t that day. if the AR-15 is that scary then maybe normal civilians shouldn’t have access to it. the second amendment just states the right to bear arms; just not what arms. if an AR-15 can cause 77 mins of inaction then it probably shouldn’t be allowed.
Tell me about hunter Biden
Omg🎉🎉Americans are paying on average $1,020 more each month compared with the same time two years ago
You just pulled that right out of the airruclips.net/user/shortsciY6dZWc0U8?si=g4zfOe6EpDWL4z_a
Ok pearl clutcher.
And joe biden's do nothing approach angered me! 🤬
trump** loves the poorly educated. 🤣
Still snoozing there Joe...
Guys a joke.
CNN tell me about hunter Biden
Please see James Comer and his delicate constitution. Support a public hearing or go away...
Democrats for 2A!
As a lifelong gun owner I applaud president Trump's Supreme Court and the great 2nd ammendment 🎉
Troll alert. One thing for certain, This SCOTUS provided the precedent with Dobbs on how to overturn that heller.
You forgot to add "as a lifelong asshole..." You're a real piece of work. You are definitely one who would have stood around armed for combat shivering in fear and threatening parents while this tragedy went down.