CNN reporter calls out Texas police official at school shooting press conference: 'We've been given

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a lot of bad information'

A CNN reporter on Thursday called out a Texas law enforcement official, saying reporters have been given "bad information" during a press briefing about the deadly Uvalde, Texas, elementary school mass shooting.

"Our job is to report the facts and later we can answer those questions. I don't have enough information," Texas Department of Public Safety South Texas Regional Director Victor Escalon admitted during the press conference as he was unable to provide solid answers to several pressing questions about Tuesday's massacre.

Reporters at the briefing nearby Robb Elementary School — where an 18-year-old gunman slaughtered 19 children and two teachers inside a fourth grade classroom — grew increasingly frustrated when Escalon could not answer certain questions about the police response to the carnage and were given conflicting reports by the state agency.

"You guys have said [the shooter] was barricaded. Can you explain to us how he was barricaded and why you guys cannot breach that door?" CNN correspondent Shimon Prokupecz asked Escalon, prompting the law enforcement official to say, "I am taking all your questions into consideration."

Link to tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cnn-reporter-calls-out-texas-police-official-at-school-shooting-press-conference-we-ve-been-given-a-lot-of-bad-information/ar-AAXLPjS

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[Treefrog]

2. Rec.

[wcmagumba]

3. All hat, no courage or empathy...nt

[aocommunalpunch]

4. Cops covering their own asses?

Quelle surprise. Fuck the police.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

7. Law enforcement is trying to keep the story in line with Abbott's claim that they have hardened

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The schools security. Only problem is, the childrens parents are starting to talk. And what they are telling us doesnt fit the cops stories.

[uponit7771]

9. +1,

[crickets]

14. +2

[2naSalit]

5. CALL THEM OUT!

Without mercy every single time they lie.

[Hassler]

6. And the PD eats up 40% of this town's budget. On what, donuts?

[C_U_L8R]

8. They're showing the world who they are

Nothing more than fools and cowards. The corruption of guns stink.

[lindysalsagal]

18. +1000

[BlackSkimmer]

10. Kick.

Someone has a lot to answer for. Those cops seem to have shitty leadership.

And someone somewhere knows that THEY are the one that left that door open.

[spanone]

11. There's some deep bullshitting going on...

[Martin68]

12. Am I right in suspecting the Texas police were too chickenshit to go in after that shooter?

[Volaris]

17. I think you've got that right.

There's video of a member of LEO stating, we didn't want any of our cops to get shot.

[Martin68]

19. So much for "the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

another conservative platitude down the drain.

[mcar]

13. More of this please

and maybe sooner next time. We all know there will be one.

[gratuitous]

15. The official story is falling apart in about 48 hours

That's pretty much lightning speed. It would be far better if the official story didn't take a detour outside the facts for a bunch of back-slapping and grandstanding about heroic cop deeds that never happened. And yeah, all too soon the cops will have another opportunity to level with the grieving public the first time.

[Ilsa]

16. They keep having to change their story about how it happened because

more witnesses are coming forward and calling them out on their self-serving lies. The first segment on The Last Word shows how abbutt is pushing his agenda with the help of his politically appointed buttkissers.