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and the school district police chief pete arredondo told dispatchers that they didn t have the firepower to confront the gunman. but at that point there were 11 officers, two with rifles at the school. all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, everyone the ones that didn t have the ballistic shields, they should have just gone in. that is what their protocol suggests. children were left in a room scared to death, calling 911 and yet no one went in. let s bring in law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow, former secret service agent to president obama. i want to get your reaction to the new images of officers standing in the school hallway with rifles and ballistic shields, just 19 minutes after the gunman entered. their protocol was to rush and take out that threat and that didn t happen. what is your sense of what happened there? listen, it is actually inexcusable that ever since this incident almost every sing ....
Didn t happen. what is your sense of what happened there? listen, it is actually inexcusable that ever since this incident almost every single thing that we have heard from officials has been wrong or misleading. and now this new imagery that is coming out is just stunning. right? because it is contrary to everything that we heard. we heard initially that they were wait beining in the hallwa waiting in the school to get additional equipment. now we know that they had them. and this just speaks to further confirmation that there was a complete breakdown of the command structure and the tactical control over this site. and it really is inexcusable. again, this is just we re hearing trickles of information come out that is devastating. we hear anxiety by the officers would know that there are children inside those rooms that need their help and they are not ....