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State documents appear to indicate Uvalde Sheriff Nolasco has not completed active shooter training

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

CNN is learning from that Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco doesn’t appear to have completed an active shooting training course. Sheriff Nolasco was one the senior law enforcement officials on the scene of the Robb Elementary School shooting where 19 students and two teachers were murdered. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tells Anderson Cooper it’s “simply law enforcement malpractice” to not have an active shooter response policy in place. Plus, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens joins AC360 to discuss how it felt being able to get WNBA star Brittney Griner home after helping negotiate the prison swap.   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.

0:01.0

For more than six months, CNN has continuously pursued the question of what went wrong in

0:05.6

the police response of Rob Elementary School in Newvalda, Texas.

0:09.0

Twenty-one people were brutally murdered, including 19 children.

0:12.3

And yet parents tell our reporters that much of what they have learned about why it took

0:15.9

authority, 77 minutes, to stop the government once he entered the school and why the overlapping

0:20.5

law enforcement agencies that arrived didn't follow accepted active shooter protocol.

0:25.9

Most of it has come from our own reporting.

0:27.9

CNN Shaman Pro-Kypes has been breaking new details about the response from months

0:31.7

now confronting law enforcement officials trying to get answers since the tragedy unfolded.

0:36.8

Tonight, Shaman has more new reporting about what did and did not happen in those 77

0:41.3

minutes that it took police to confront the killer.

0:44.2

He joins us now from Texas with some new information we learned just moments ago about

0:48.1

Uvalda's sheriff.

0:49.1

What would he be learned?

0:50.7

Yeah, that's Ruben Nalasco, who's the sheriff of Uvalda County.

0:55.6

What we're learning now is that according to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement

0:59.5

and also an expert that was hired by the Uvalda County to review the policies of the sheriff's

1:05.6

office on that day, we've discovered that the sheriff, according to these records, has

1:10.8

not actually had any kind of active shooter training.

1:14.9

We also learned today that on that day, on May 24th, and really for several months after

1:19.8

that Anderson, that the Uvalda County Sheriff, there was no active shooter policy in place

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