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Uvalde school district fires officer after CNN identifies her as former trooper under investigation for her response to massacre

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The Uvalde school district fired a newly hired school officer after CNN identified her as a former Texas state trooper who is being investigated for her response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary that left 19 children and two teachers murdered. Crimson Elizondo is one of the law enforcement officers who arrived at the school within two minutes of the gunman entering the building and opening fire. It took police officers around 77 minutes to kill the shooter while children and teachers were dying or already dead. CNN Crime and Justice Correspondent Shimon Prokupecz has been covering the mass shooting and investigations into the police’s response. He tells Anderson Cooper the reason the school district is claiming Elizondo was fired.  Plus, Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker has doubled down on his denials that he allegedly paid for a woman’s abortion in 2009. Van Jones is a CNN Political Commentator and was a special adviser to the President during the Obama administration. He joins AC360 to discuss Walker's denials and his response to the allegations. 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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Good evening just a day after CNN Shimon Prokipez revealed that the U of all these school

0:04.5

district had hired a former Texas State Trooper under investigation for her role during

0:09.3

the Rob Elementary Massacre, that officer is now out of the job.

0:13.1

Crimson Elizondo is her name.

0:14.9

She was on the shooting within two minutes on that terrible day.

0:18.9

But like many of those early arrivals on the scene did not follow universally accepted

0:22.6

protocols for stopping an active shooter.

0:25.2

And like more than 375 other law enforcement personnel, she too would end up standing

0:29.9

by for 77 minutes before anyone confronted and killed the gunman.

0:34.4

As for how she viewed her responsibilities that day, how she saw her duty to protect

0:38.5

the children inside, listen to this moment from Shimon's report, it's captured on video

0:43.2

of her outside the school that morning.

0:47.0

An officer asked if her children attend Rob Elementary.

0:50.5

Elizondo's response.

0:52.5

Yeah, my son's in daycare, he's not old enough.

0:57.0

I saw you.

0:58.0

Yeah, no.

0:59.0

I know if my son had been in there, I would not have been outside.

1:04.0

I promise you that.

1:06.5

My son had been in there, she said, I would not have been outside.

1:09.7

I promise you that.

1:11.2

We spoke about her employment by the school district last night with a guardian of a 10-year

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