CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz Reflects on ‘Heart-Stopping’ Moment Texas Officials Admitted Shooting Response Mistakes: ‘I Couldn’t Believe It’
EXCERPT:
PROKUPECZ: “So, you know, they came to me with the first question, and when I asked the — after they went through the entire timeline of the 911 calls and how many officers were inside, and when the Director Steve McCraw of the DPS, the Department of Public Safety, when I asked him what did the officers do to break into that door, and when he said to me, ‘Nothing at that time,’ Brian, I couldn’t believe it. It was heart-stopping for me. It was just like someone punched me — seriously, like someone punched me in the stomach to hear that, to hear that ‘Nothing at that time.’ They did nothing in those moments, in those critical moments when they should’ve been storming that door. By all accounts, every protocol in active shooting situations, you have to get to the shooter. I was shocked. I knew a lot didn’t make sense. I knew that something was wrong here. But I didn’t know, to me, that it was this bad. And I was just shocked. And the only thing I could do is say, ‘Why?’ But I didn’t even know what else at that moment to ask or where to go because it was shocking to me that it was just nothing at that time.”
