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Arredondo team over everyone else. but logistic at all these different uniforms. this is not one cohesive unit. you guys, you look at this as law enforcement in particular. is it odd that they would all be deferring to somebody at the level of arredondo? where is there own individual agency leadership here? >> well, under incident command, which is the way they should be organized at this point in time. then these other agencies would actually be under the command of the person in charge in ics....

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Him, they had the equipment. so what should have happened at that point? >> don, i think one of the things thats going to come out of this, obviously, is that incident command completely and utterly failed. the officers that were there certainly would have been willing. they had the training. they had the firepower, but for whatever reason they did not feel that they had the ability to go in. ive heard that there was talk about command confusion, but thats really going to be a pale excuse when y...

Were being killed or dying. what do we make of the lack of incident command here? >> so the fire service really is the agency that is responsible for coming up with a lot of this notion that law enforcement later adopted about incident command. it is an outstanding system and it relies highest ranking person really kind of putting things together. and that as additional higher think are aed people show up, you get this incident command level, including when there is other departments and other a...

Quote lost momentum because they didnt return fire with exact fire. they had that opportunity. instead, they retreated and then there is the portion about the incident command. we have heard a lot from dekz dps pointing the finger at the school police chief pete arradondo, calling him the incident commander, something he denied. according to this report that was part of the problem, the lack of incident command. i am going to quote from the report. it says, quote, it does not appear that effecti...

If he would have stopped, or would have gotten out of his car, according to the authors of this report, this officer could have seen the suspect, could have stopped the suspect. further, more fail oars. according to this report, once officers did enter the school, they lost momentum, is how this report states it. in essence, they explain that they didnt return fire with qualifier, because these officers were also armed with rifles. so this report says they lost momentum. it took them more than a...

Incident commander as the school police chief pete arredondo, something he has denied, this report says part of the problem was that there was no incident command. it says, quote, it does not appear that effective incident command was established during this event, the lack of effective command likely impaired both the stop the killing and the stop the dying parts of the response. and, brianna, we know, of course, that 21 people died, including 19 children and 2 teachers. >> cant mimagine being ...

Appaap pa appatient apparent that you had high ranking law enforcement from uvalde that were present that would have had incident command but they didnt exercise it. unfortunately chaos rained. and law enforcement allowed some of this to happen before ultimately a border patrol tactical team decided they that had enough and they went in and took care of it. >> a remarkable read. heartbreaking. all of these missed connections. but maybe it is instructive for law enforcement moving forward because...

Shooter situation. he fired shots before he ever went inside the school. so he was more than justified to use deadly force against this particular individual to stop the threat, period. and he didnt do it, for whatever reason. you dont need permission in a situation like this. you have to act and you have to act quickly. >> this calls into question, again, the -- who was in charge, the question of who was in charge. and the report found there was a lack of effective command that likely impaired ...

Was a police officer there and let me quote from the report, it says, quote, the officer armed with a rifle asked his supervisor for permission to shoot the suspect. however, the supervisor either did not hear or responded too late. the officer turned to get confirmation from his supervisor and when he turned back to address the suspect, he had entered the west hallway unabated. there was a second opportunity, according to this report, a police officer in a police cruiser in the parking lot, how...