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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 don't 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. >> you're hearing all kinds of stories now coming from one place, dps. >> yeah. >> kind of controlling the narrative right now. how troubled are you by that? >> i'm real troubled. i'm not c...

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, there's 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 there's always someone that says let's go, line up, stack up and someone is at the front door. >> a texas house committee investigating the respons...

>> 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 shooter to a barricaded subject. >> mccraw says the on-scene commander was uvalde school district police c...

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 children and that the subject was barricaded, and that they had time to organize with the proper equipmen...