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Chief Who Decided Not to Enter Uvalde Classroom Refuses to Answer Questions in First Public Comments in a Week

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Uvalde school police chief who led the flawed law enforcement response to last week’s school shooting refused to answer CNN’s questions about the massacre. Chief Pete Arredondo did say he won’t release any further information until the "families quit grieving." Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tells Anderson Cooper that this is "sickening" to watch the chief "hiding behind the grief" of families who are burying their children.  Plus, at least four people were killed in a shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa City Councilor Jayme Fowler joins AC360 to give an update. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening with Fenerles underway for the victims.

0:03.1

The last week, school shooting, Newvalde, Texas, we have another mass shooting to report

0:07.0

tonight, this time, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

0:09.5

Please say at least three people are dead plus the shooter at a medical office building

0:12.9

near the city of St. Francis Hospital.

0:14.5

It's you know, it's Joe Johns is working this story.

0:16.9

He joins us now.

0:17.9

What is the, what do we know so far, Joe?

0:20.1

Anderson, what we do know, at least according to the authority so far, is that three people

0:25.0

have been reported dead as a result of the shooting of fourth.

0:29.0

If you include the shooter himself and we're also told by authorities that one person

0:35.0

was taken from the hospital in critical condition.

0:39.7

This initially went out according to authorities as a report of a man with a rifle and escalated

0:47.0

into an active shooter situation at the St. Francis Hospital campus in what is referred

0:54.1

to as the Natalie building, apparently a very large building, authorities having to go

0:59.7

door to door there in that building and remove people in what they're referring to as

1:05.6

a slow evacuation.

1:08.0

So not a lot of additional details in this.

1:12.2

At first, authorities called this a catastrophic scene.

1:15.8

We still don't know any more details about why they would be referring to it in that

1:20.4

way.

1:21.4

We do know at this time as three dead four, including the shooter and one person reported

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