What went wrong in Uvalde
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
More than a week later, what we know and don’t know about how a gunman carried out a massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex. — and why the timeline from authorities keeps changing.
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In the days since a shooter killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School, new and horrifying details about the timeline of events keep emerging. We now know that the gunman was able to walk into the school unimpeded. We know that children called 911 from within classrooms pleading for help. But we still don’t know exactly why it took so long for authorities to stop the gunman.
Silvia Foster-Frau reports on what happened during a devastating 90-minute window.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start today's show, a warning that some of the discussion and audio in this |
| 0:07.0 | episode could be hard to hear. |
| 0:10.0 | So please keep that in mind as you decide when and with whom you listen. |
| 0:15.0 | What can you tell those families that believe the local police officers didn't do their |
| 0:23.0 | job? |
| 0:24.0 | Well, you know, I'm not part of the investigation, but I mean what I am part of, I think the truth |
| 0:31.0 | will come out. |
| 0:32.0 | And I think that when you see that we get all the facts out, we will know what happened. |
| 0:41.0 | His tragic is he is. |
| 0:43.0 | But these families deserve the answers. |
| 0:46.0 | And we will make sure that they get the answers and it's transparent. |
| 0:50.0 | And if we made mistakes, we'll own those mistakes. |
| 0:59.0 | On Wednesday afternoon, just over a week after the shooting at Rob Elementary School, the |
| 1:03.6 | mayor of Uvalde, Texas, Don McLaughlin, sat down with reporters from Telamundo, San Antonio |
| 1:09.6 | and the post. |
| 1:10.6 | He answered questions about the shooting and about how police responded. |
| 1:15.8 | One of the reporters in the room with him was our colleague, Silvia Foster-Fraud. |
| 1:20.2 | There were a lot of desperate parents as I'm sure you know, like trying to get into the |
| 1:23.6 | building, trying to save their children. |
| 1:25.5 | Did you see them there and do you believe that the way that they handled that situation |
| 1:29.5 | was appropriate? |
| 1:30.5 | I think I was on what I would call the East End of Rob campus, a place on the West End. |
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