garza, who you just heard from, for him, it s a question of accountability. he s asking who should be held accountable and how they will be held accountable. pamela. just so agonizing for these parents. jason carroll in uvalde, texas, thank you. and police have been pressed for answers all day long, specifically on how did officers not go in to help the children trapped in that classroom with the killer for so long, for an hour? i want to bring in shimon prokupecz. clearly, there was a potentially deadly disconnect between 911 dispatch and officers on the ground or i don t know what to think of this. what explanation is there for this? well, we don t have really an explanation for this. other police departments communicate regularly, sadly, in these types of situations, an active shooting situation, where 911 dispatchers are able to communicate with police officers on the ground when they see
as the officials said today. it s just devastating. you asked law enforcement about accountability going forward. what liability could these officers and decisionmakers have? well, so there are certainly state legislators and members of congress who now want the fbi to investigate. they want an independent investigation. certainly, the chief of police here, his name is peter arredondo, he spoke in the hours after the shooting, giving a statement, but we have not heard from him since. he wasn t at this press conference. i asked why he wasn t here. they didn t give any reason. i also asked the fbi if this is something, the reaction to this shooting, the tactics that were used here, if that was something they were going to investigate. they don t have jurisdiction right now. they re serving, as you know in these situations, they serve as an assistant. they offer assistance. they try to help with whatever resources the local needs.
question first. and then i ll answer your first question. in your second question, you talked about the rollback of any legislation i passed in the last session. none of the laws i signed this past session had any intersection with this crime at all. no law that i signed allowed him to get a gun. the gun that he did get. and so again, there was nothing about the laws from this past session that has any relevancy to the crime that occurred here. with regard to spelcial session let me say all options on the table. second, to your point, do we expect laws to come out of this devastating crime? the answer is absolutely yes. there will be laws in multiple different subject areas. for example, i do fully expect to have every law that we pass in the aftermath of the santi fay shooting to be completely revisited. first, we need to gain the
was a shooter in and the building and went out to lock the door, but maya says the shooter was right there. and he shot out the window in the door. she describes it all happening so fast from there. her teacher backing into the classroom and the gunman following. she says the shooter looked one of her teachers in the eye, said good night, and then shot her. another survivor, jaden, who told adrian broaddus he could hear gunfire from where he was hiding with his classmates and learns later some of them were killed. do you ever want to go to school? no, because i don t want anything to do with another shooting. and me in the school. you re scared it might happen again? mm-hmm. and i know it might happen again. and the sad part of that is there are no assurances we can give to that little boy that it
nine students alive. she asked 911 to please send the police now. alfred garza says his daughter amerie may have been one of the students who tried to call 911. she was killed during the shooting. now that garza knows first responders made a tragic respect in waiting to breach the door, it has triggered a range of emotions. something has to be done now. where do we go from here? you were wrong. what do we do now? you know, it s my question. what are we going to do now? the accountability. right, the accountability. somebody has to be responsible. those who survived and endured their wait for rescue now left to deal with the trauma. mia got some blood and put it on herself and pretended she was dead. and pamela, now so many people here left with a lot of sobering questions, namely, could more children have been saved had these officers acted sooner? and for parents like alfred