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So why did officials from dps which is responsible for statewide law enforcement keep singling out uvalde school district police chief pete arredondo? >> you know, at this point i dont know what to believe or what not to believe. >> reporter: don mclaughlin is mayor of uvalde. he thinks the blame for the police response belongs to all the agencies who were there, not just the uvalde school district police. >> youre hearing all kinds of stories now coming from one place, dps. >> yeah. >> kind of ...

Larger police department gets to come in and take over. >> under further questioning, mccraw later explains confronting an active shooter should take precedence over the chain of command. >> bottom line, theres always someone who takes the lead. it may not have to be the chief and frankly i mentioned it before. you can delegate to another agency but you can delegate is down to even a sergeant or a lead officer or someone with tactical expertise so theres always someone that says lets go, line up...

>> and perhaps most significantly in this last briefing colonel mccraw offers a new explanation as to why no one stormed into the classroom to stop the gunman for 77 minutes. >> what efforts were made to try and break through that door you say was locked? what efforts were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another to get inside that classroom? >> none at that time. >> why? >> the on-scene commander at the time believed that it had transitioned from an active shoote...

Who are here waiting and asking the police to go in. >> there was 19. there was 19 officers in there. in fact, there was plenty of officers to do whatever needed to be done, with one exception, that the incident commander inside believed they needed more equipment and more officers to do a tactical breach at that point. because the chief of police of the consolidated school district, he was convinced, and again, i want to go back, he was convinced a the time there was no more threat to the child...

Transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. >> mccraw says the on-scene commander was uvalde school district police chief arredondo. >> the chief of police is the incident commander. its his school. hes chief of police, okay. >> where is the police chief, and why isnt he here to take our questions? >> well, because im here to address the latest timeline and facts that we know. youre certainly welcome to reach out to him. the decision was made on the scene, i wasnt there, but at ...

Official, you end up being the incident commander. lets say the dps captain shows up into a situation and decides hes going to exercise control, you know, first of all, he doesnt have the information, and you know what, he may not be as sharp as the on-seen commander thats there in addition to not having the information so im reluctant to encourage or even think of any situation where you would want some level hierarchy where a larger police department gets to come in and take over. >> under fur...

Public safety, which has been running this entire investigation, which was the initial law enforcement agency that did all the press conferences, it was all of their spokespeople who spoke about what happened here admitted, that yeah, the fact is that this teacher actually did close the door and then for some reason it didnt close. it didnt look. again, this took days to find out. this wasnt something that the police came forward and admitted immediately. >> weve got to get in there. >> and perh...

Department of public safety, which has been running this entire investigation, which was the initial law enforcement agency that did all the press conferences, it was all of their spokespeople who spoke about what happened here, admitted that yeah, the fact is that this teacher actually did close the door. and then for some reason, it didnt close. it didnt lock. again, this took days to find out. this wasnt something that the police came forward and admitted immediately. >> get we got to get in ...

Narrative right now. how troubled are you by that? >> im real trumd. im not confident in 100% of dps because i think its a cover-up. >> dps. >> they are covering up. >> mccraw is covering up. >> for who? >> for maybe his agencies, or maybe he told the story that he told, you know, that, you know what, do they say, its always hard when you tell a lyrics have you to keep telling a lie. im not saying he was lying. maybe he was misled. >> cnn reached out to dps for comment after this interview. they...