CNN Exclusive: Former trooper under investigation for actions at Robb Elementary is now a police officer for the same school system

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🗓️ 6 October 2022

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CNN has exclusively learned that a former Texas state trooper who is under investigation for her actions at Robb Elementary on May 24th is now a police officer at Uvalde Elementary. She’s now being trusted with protecting some of those same students who survived the massacre that saw 19 students and two teachers murdered. Crimson Elizondo was one of the first law enforcement officers on scene when a gunman entered the school. About 77 minutes had passed between the time the first police officers arrived on scene and when the shooter was eventually killed. CNN Crime and Justice Correspondent Shimon Prokupecz has been covering the investigation and searching for answers. He tells Anderson Cooper about how the victim’s families are reacting to his new reporting. Plus, today was the first time people were allowed back onto Florida’s Sanibel Island since Hurricane Ian made landfall as a Category 4 storm. CNN National Correspondent Randi Kaye made the trip with some of them. 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. We begin with CNN exclusive reporting from Uvalde, Texas. It is hard to imagine.
0:05.6	It won't be yet another blow to the families of the 19 children and two teachers murdered
0:09.5	at Robbilla, a military school in May. That's because the story that we're about to tell
0:13.2	you fits into what has been a depressing pattern since then of official stonewalling,
0:17.8	bureaucratic finger pointing, misleading or outright fall statements, and seemingly unfathomable
0:22.8	revelations, such as the one that CNN Shimon Prokipez brings us tonight. It has been
0:27.1	like this from the start. As horrible as what happened, it could have been worse. The
0:38.9	reason it was not worse is because law enforcement officials did what they do. They showed amazing
0:51.9	courage by running toward gunfire for the singular purpose of trying to save lives.
1:02.2	So that was the Texas governor. That turned out to be false. What he said was false. He later
1:05.8	said he had been misled. So did this. The shooting began. We had Uvalde police officers
1:13.4	arrive on scene, along with the consolidated independent school district officers immediately
1:17.9	breached because we know an officer is every seconds alive. Law enforcement was there.
1:23.0	They did engage immediately. Again, not true. As the body and security cameras clearly
1:28.2	showed, no one immediately breached the classroom, no one immediately engaged the shooter. The
1:32.2	shooter was in the school for 77 minutes before the classroom was finally breached and he
1:36.4	was killed. During that time, there were dozens of police coming and going hundreds outside
1:41.0	the school. Not one of them did what officers around the country are now routinely trained
1:45.4	to do in these situations and have been trained for years in these situations to do. Another
1:50.8	misleading statement repeatedly made by Texas officials was that the shooter was somehow
1:54.5	barricaded inside the classroom. He wasn't. In fact, the classroom door may not even have
1:58.9	been locked. But according to a report from the Texas State House investigative committee,
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