Director: Texas DPS “did not fail” Uvalde in school shooting response

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety Col. Steven McCraw says his agency “did not fail the community” of Uvalde when a gunman entered Robb Elementary School and killed 19 students and two teachers. It took law enforcement 77 minutes to breach the classroom and kill the shooter while children and teachers were dead, dying or traumatized in their classrooms. Brett Cross is the legal guardian of Uziyah Garcia, one of the fourth graders who was murdered. He joins AC360 to react to McCraw’s comments. Plus, the man who pulled Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone into the crowd of violent rioters on January 6 was sentenced to more than 7 years behind bars. Fanone suffered a traumatic brain injury and later, a heart attack. He tells Anderson Cooper whether he thinks the sentence was fair. 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 almost since the moment a gunman entered Rob Elementary School in Yvalda, Texas
0:05.8	and murdered 19 children and two teachers.
0:08.0	Their loved ones have endured a form of cruelty.
0:10.3	In addition to the loss they have to live with for the rest of their lives.
0:14.1	It's unlike just about anything that we've ever seen in the wake of any other such tragedy.
0:19.8	Never mind accountability.
0:21.4	At many points since May 24th these grieving families haven't even gotten the simplest
0:25.3	answers from anyone involved in what was by any measure in almost every imaginable way
0:31.9	a colossal failure.
0:33.9	And that cruelty of officials playing keep away with the truth and continues.
0:38.7	At a meeting today of the Texas Public Safety Commission, Department of Public Safety
0:42.3	Director Steve McGraw, was supposed to deliver what they called a director's report on
0:47.9	Yvalda, containing an updated timeline and other new information.
0:51.6	Instead he provided neither with the families of the murdered victims in the room he did
0:57.1	not deliver a director's report.
0:59.0	He failed to deliver on that promise and family members in the audience responded.
1:05.5	You have disgraced the state, your position and the people.
1:09.4	The office is still under your supervision.
1:12.4	Maldonado, Baton Court and Kendall have been proven to have been culpable and with new
1:16.2	information dropping just about weekly we know that there will be others.
1:20.6	Well Steve, the time is now.
1:23.0	If you're a man of your word, you'll resign.
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