Uvalde shooting report and new video reveal failures in law enforcement response

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Just one day after a Texas House investigative committee released a preliminary report outlining a series of failures by multiple law enforcement agencies in their response at the scene, the school board is holding a meeting in Uvalde, Texas where angry families and community members are asking for accountability. Plus, more video from inside Robb Elementary School, unseen until now, reveals footage from Uvalde Police Officer Justin Mendoza’s body camera. CNN’s Crime and Justice Correspondent Shimon Prokupecz continues to push officials for answers about what happened almost 2 months later. Also, Parents of the children killed are continuing to speak out. Angel Garza’s stepdaughter Amerie Jo Garza was just 10-years-old when she was murdered inside her classroom. Garza tells Anderson Cooper “It makes no sense that there are still things unanswered about this.” He adds, “our kids can’t rest in peace, all this arguing, and bickering and lying to our face. It doesn't help our situation at all.” 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 parents, classmates and relatives of children murdered at Rob Elementary School
0:05.4	are speaking out tonight at a school board meeting underway right now in Yvalde, Texas.
0:09.8	Some of the angriest might imagine being directed at the school's systems Police Chief Pita
0:13.6	Arradondo.
0:14.6	You're still standing by Panham to take a vacation, correct?
0:19.6	No.
0:20.6	He is on administrative leave.
0:23.1	We received this information yesterday.
0:25.2	One of the things I did say when he went on administrative leave that we were going to
0:28.6	wait for investigative information to come forward to help us in our decision making
0:32.6	process.
0:33.6	And I will stick to that.
0:34.9	All right.
0:35.9	Well, I'll tell you this.
0:36.9	If he's not fired by noon tomorrow, then I want your resignation and every single one
0:41.7	of you board members because y'all do not give a damn about our children or us.
0:46.8	Stand with us or against us because we ain't going nowhere.
0:54.2	And we're bringing more from the meeting tonight and talk with Angel Garza, whose stepdaughter,
0:59.1	Amory Jo, was killed along with 18 other students and two teachers that day.
1:03.8	Also tonight there is more video unseen until now from inside the school.
1:07.4	The video, which you'll see in a little bit, underscores what a report released yesterday
1:11.3	from a Texas State House committee calls systemic failures and egregiously poor decision-making,
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