thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. happy monday. happy monday and thank you. welcome to the beat. on this monday many are marking today s holiday which honors doctor martin luther king. you can see the replay at the king monument at the national mall. also present biden making it clear that he does not see today i work about commemorating some past history but a test for right now, for all of us about how america faces the rising hate with today s problem and not just yesterday s. also how we deal with what we know is the original sin of racism and racial strife, supersized in some way for this maggot era. we face another inflection point and one that will determine what this country will look like several decades from now. will we choose democracy and community over chaos? love over hate? these are the questions of our time and in the life and legacy of doctor king and remind us to show us the way forward
said today. the admission of a string of police failures including driving right by the gunman, ever how one girl cowering inside the cool called 911 five times. 20 officers stood in the hallway outside of the classrooms but it wasn t until 12:50 that the classroom was breached using keys from a janitor. mcgraw said the on-seen commander believed that this was a barricaded subject situation and did not think that there were more children at risk. he was then overwhelmed with reporters demanding an explanation into the time delay leading him to make this stunning admission. stand by. hey, stand by. from the benefit of hindsight where i m sitting now of course it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision period. there s no excuse for that. the press conference also failed to translate questions and answers into spanish despite earlier promises that they would. again, a lot of the folks in this town speak spanish as a primary language. in espanol. no spanis
of this attack and response and then how he spread it. a lot of this is coming out of the course of today. depending what you re up to, you may not have heard the gruesome details but he s using this as a time to take a platform within a crisis to lie about gun safety and gun control. we ll get into that. late today, the governor used a damage control press conference to repeatedly push false claims about public safety policy. here are the new details emerging about the failed police response to this shooter and some are absolutely gut wrenching. we are learning the timeline which is now updated because of the misinformation i mentioned. we re learning 19 police officers erroneously waited 45 minutes outside the close room without ever breaking in to confront the killer inside. we re learning that the killer was able to thus continue to repeatedly fire weapons again while the police were outside the door. these are facts that are terrible but they are also significant. they
of the process, the piece is viewed by a group of law enforcement peers. from there, it is determined whether it would be considered a line of duty death. if so, that name is engraved in april, the following year, so april of 2023 for these 2022 line of duty deaths. they will be engraved on the wall in washington, d.c. and then on may 13th, on the national mall, we will have a candlelight vigil where we ll read the names of all fallen officers from that prior year. yeah. and mark, when you look at some of these crimes, every crime involves people and detectives, criminologists and sometimes prosecutors have to make sense of them, and some are hard to make sense of. when you see the ambush attacks, the one we reported on where you have someone who is so violent,
for real answers. that s 11:00 p.m. eastern tonight on msnbc. i did want to let you know about that. i hope you and your family are safe and informed, and i do wish you a good long weekend. thanks-for-watching the beat with ari melber. the reidout with joy reid starts now. ari melber. the reidout with joy reid starts now good evening, everyone. we begin the reidout tonight with texas officials sharing harrowing details on what happened when a gunman killed at least 19 children and two of their teachers at robb elementary school in uvalde where roughly 82% of the population is latino. yet take a look at the scene. that is steven mcgraw, director of texas department of public safety along with his law enforcement peers, a glimpse of leadership that doesn t quite match the demographics of the town 60 miles from the u.s.-mexico border. but that was even what was even more startling than the optics of all these press conferences this week with all of that leadership is what was