Dear Wolfgang - Revisiting Sandy Hook 2018

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Ladies and gentlemen, hold me accountable for everything that I say tonight. I cannot, I cannot afford to waste your time. Got nine run once, look at it, I'm sorry. See, you're home school, I think there's somebody shooting in here. I think there's nobody in here. Okay, well, make sure you think that. Because somebody's got a ton of clothes to somebody, they're running down the hall. Okay, boom, they're still running, they're still shooting. All right, see, there's nobody in school, please. Hello. Hello. Is there a nine-hole in once you ask for help? Just stay in, stay inside, and stay in the house, you. You can't care again. Okay, what's going on? 10-bit of the truck. 10-bit of the truck. Are you out to the hall or are you in a future in this world? Okay, where are you in the hall right now? I'm standing in the hall, I'm in the bathroom. Okay, yeah, everyone in the classroom is a door. I'm playing stage. They're doing a lot of dance to it. I can't sit up. Okay, thank you. I don't need you to keep everybody calm. Keep everybody down. Get everybody away from the way you want. Okay, okay. We're ready. We're ready. Action to do this. That's the hallway where you're off in the high end. And send it to the left. All right, you can't hide it. I'll walk down the school, okay? I wish I had a good time. All right. All right. John 9-1-1, what's the location of your emergency? See, you look at elementary school. 12-6 is in drive. Okay, I've got that. What's going on down there? This side, believe it. Shooting at the front. At the front glass. Something's going on. All right, I got it. I want you to stand on it. Where are you in the school? I'm in the middle of the school. Ladies and gentlemen, stand. You look. Touch my heart. If we don't come together as a country, as a people, we are in serious, serious trouble. 20-year-old Adam Lanza launched his massacre at home. Officials say Lanza shot his mother Nancy multiple times, killing her in her bed. Lanza then took four guns, legally registered to his mother, and drove this Black Honda to Sandy Hook Elementary School, about five miles away. Students there had finished reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Then around 9-30 Friday morning, staffers in the front office heard popping noises. Lanza entered the building carrying a Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle, with two semi-automatic handguns inside the pockets of his military-style cargo pants. Police say he was also carrying hundreds of rounds of guns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition in multiple magazines. The precise sequence of what happened next is unclear. But we do know Lanza headed down a hallway towards the section of the school containing the classrooms of the youngest students. There, he killed 21st graders, shooting all of them numerous times with the 223 assault rifle. Six adult women, including the principal, the school psychologist, and teachers were also killed. The shooting lasted about 10 minutes. The slaughter ended as the first police officers arrived on the scene. The officers heard a final volley of shots. Lanza had used one of the handguns to take his own life. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. The police said the shooting was a very difficult task. 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And when I joined the service in 1966 during Vietnam, I took an oath. Ladies and gentlemen, it means something to me. When I got out of the military and I became a Florida State Trooper, I took an oath. It means something. When I got out of the highway patrol and became a US customs agent, what did I do? I took an oath. When I became a naturalized U.S. citizen, what did I do? I took an oath. And even when I became a teacher and a school administrator, I took an oath. Ladies and gentlemen, I've traveled this country from one end to another. I get hired by school superintendents and school board members to look at their schools and come up with emergency management plans to school safety assessments and make sure that these principals have a plan in the event there is an emergency. In 1994, when I became a director of school safety, the first thing I realized in my school district of 65,000 students, we had no plan. How in the world do you run a 65,000 student school district and not know what you're going to do if there's a shooting? So we did have a shooting. We did have had stabings. We did have gang members. And then the superintendent says, Wolfgang, right a plan. We sold 10,000 of these all over the country. This is a color coded emergency management plan. And we pray to God that no school district ever has to say the words code red. It's breaking news, shots fired, Connecticut. Ladies and gentlemen, I couldn't take my eyes off the TV. I'm a National School Safety Consultant and they had me hooked. Ladies and gentlemen, Sandy Hook touched my heart all day long. I could not get away from that TV. In the first week, I actually donated money to the Sandy Hook Promise Fund. Because when you have tragedy, the first thing we can do as people of this country is we donate. I donate it. And a week later, a week later, I finally woke up. Something is not right. 935, 43, the first 911, the first 911, the first 911. The first 911, the first 911, the first 911, the first 911. The first 911, the first 911, the first 911. The first 911, the first 911, the first 911, the first 911, is from a lady called Barbara Hallsted. Her husband happens to be the fire chief at the Sandy Hook volunteer fire department. I go to the Call for Service report that the 911 dispatchers are supposed to maintain. What am I looking for at 935, 43? What should that call for service show me? Shot fired. Guess what it says? Unwanted person. Response code, medium. That even have a high priority code. It should have listed what? Shot fired. Because that gives you the highest priority. It's an all call, all hand on deck. Everybody's holding but. And how did I verify it? I go to the incident reports. Guess what the incident report says? Unwanted person. There is not one mention ever of shot fired at Sandy Hook. Got 911. What's the location of emergency? I think there's somebody shooting in here. Sandy Hook School. Okay, what makes you think that? Because somebody's got a gun. I saw a glimpse of somebody. They're running down the hall. Okay. They're still running. They're still shooting. We have 911 calls coming in four of them. In a matter of seven minutes. And everyone on the screen and shot fired. Shot fired. And they send out the call as a trust passer. It's 940. Police arriving. The first one is Sergeant David Colgram. He says in his report, we responded. I parked my vehicle. Halfway down Dickinson Drive. Now you got to visualize what Dickinson Drive is. Fire station. Okay, it's on Riverside. Fire station. Riverside 12. It's going to the school. It's a long drive. He stops. Halfway down. And he says in his report, I'm waiting for other units. Newtown Police Department has a police chief named Mike Keohol. They have a captain named Reels. They have four lieutenants in the management staff. You do not hear one word from any of those managers until an hour and a half into the transmission. Question, where are they? Guess who controls the entire men? Sergeant David Colgram. And all of a sudden at 11.42 a.m. on that day. You never hear another word of Sergeant David Colgram. Now, guess who shows up? Another lieutenant named Sinko. Now, he's the guy who's working that morning at an off-duty construction site, off-duty. He has a Newtown police officer named Fogole, a female officer. She's a K-9 officer. They're working maybe two miles from Sandy Hook. They hear the call. Shots fired. What should they do? I don't know what Joe's protocol is. If you're off-duty, you're in uniform, you're in a patrol car. You hear shots fired in a school. What do you do? You stay at the off-duty job or you break away? You go to the shooting, right? These two never leave. They stay for four hours. Now, this is a lieutenant at 9.42. Nobody's entered the school yet. Not one policeman's in. 9.42, he's running a car tag check on the Black Honda Civic. 8.72, Y-E-O. Takes about two or three minutes to come back. Then he reaches in, takes out a long gun, long rifle, puts it in the trunk, locks it. He has yet to go into school. What's the higher priority? Neutralize in the shooter or running a car tag. There is a lieutenant Van Galley, Newtown police lieutenant, in a hallway. He runs into a first-grade little girl. It could be your little girl. He sees her, he grabs her. He opens the door and pushes her into classroom 8. Tells her, get in there, I'll be back when it's safe. Closes the door. Somebody explained to me where classroom 8 is. What's the template for? That's the room where all the children were shot and killed. And he shoves her back into the room. Can you imagine the emotional distress that the girl is going in countersing all those dead body, the body fluids, the blood splatter, brain tissues. And he pushes her into the room and leaves her. That's negligence. We know better. Two minutes later, two Connecticut State Troopers. Go into room 10. They walk in. They see a little boy hiding behind the toilet. Tell a little boy, okay, you're going to be safe. Stay right there, don't move, we'll be back when it's safe. What's room 10? That's the other room the teachers and children were shot and killed. And that's where Adam Lanz is supposed to be shot and killed himself. And they leave that little boy behind the toilet? That in itself raises a red flag. No police officers would ever leave a child in that position. They would take him with them. They would get him out of there. But the only way you can ever find out the truth is you ask the right questions. And what you do is you use a mechanism called Freedom of Information. And it's the best way to get public records. Connecticut FOIA is basically a government agency that says you have a right to know. Any person has a right to know when the government's spend taxpayers money. You have a right to know. And you know what? I'm asking them using school board policies and procedures. These questions are so simple. They're not offensive to any parent. It's not offensive to any of the children. And when you refuse to answer simple questions, to me, serious red flags. Who was the person, the incident commander, who refused to pick up the phone and call the trauma helicopters? Who's the incident commander? Who was the one who did not ever allow the paramedics and the EMTs to enter Sandiho, Elementary School, based on their sworn police affidavits. They were told to stand outside in the triage area where you see the red tarp, the yellow tarp. They were the stand there and not come inside. The next three people that go into school is Colorgram, Officer Smith, and Officer Sebro. The next two of them is a paramedic or an EMT. So who declared all those children dead within the first eight minutes? As the rescue team is coming into the school, the incident commander should have done what? Trauma helicopters, with doctors, think about a children's shot. Put the trauma surgeon in from Hartford's community, put him in a trauma helicopters, get him in the air. The trauma was even requested to lift off. I called them. I know how we do business on Long Island. I know it's available to us as far as... What's available in the fact that it's a Connecticut? They got a 13-minute flight time. Hartford, Connecticut had two trauma centers. Two trauma centers, 13-minute flight time. And you know, to this day, not one ambulance ever showed up at the front entrance of the school. They were going to tell me that they carried a child that was seriously shot three to eleven times. They carried it all the way up Dickinson Drive, up to the firehouse to put in the ambulance. You see seven, eight, nine ambulances at the firehouse? What is wrong with that? Then I saw the truck delivering porta-potties, eleven porta-potties. Here's my question for you, fireman. Whenever have you had the first mass casually shooting, an elementary school history, and all the fire trucks are sitting at the fire station? They all shiny. They moved. And the worst traffic control ever seen. They blocked ambulances, people from coming. But they did get the porta-potties there in time. So it took me about a month to figure out who the owner of the porta-pottie company wants. It's called Shaqfield porta-pottie out of Southbury, Connecticut. I called them up. I said, I want to know who ordered them. When were they ordered? When were they ordered? Who paid for them? She called the police. The Southbury Police Department, a sergeant called me the next morning, said, do not ever call the porta-pottie company again or you'll be arrested. What? Harassment. Now, I want you to call the porta-pottie company. And here's the thing. They got a porta-pottie company in Newtown, Canada. They got two of them. The entire campus is a crime scene. That means no one, no parent or anyone else is allowed to enter the crime scene. And they are actually delivered within three hours of the shooting. Here's my question to you. I want to know who the incident commander is who ordered porta-potties. But they won't order trauma helicopters. Do you know they never let paramedics and EMTs inside the school the entire day? What if that's your brain child been there? They got kids out in the park a lot. Now, 1009, remember that. When Shannon Hicks, from the Newtown bee association. Others taking these iconic pictures that appeared on every front page of every newspaper in the world. She is standing in the middle of the park a lot and saying to your madam Fus grew. And they're still looking for second shooter. But they don't let one ambulance. They don't let one EMT or paramedic inside the school. of shaman hicks getting into a crime scene when they're looking for the active shooter or shooter. We did not bring the bodies and the families into contact. We took pictures of them of their facial features. It's easier on the families when you do that. There is a time and a place for a plus and personal in the grieving process. We've accomplished this. We felt that it would be best to do it this way and you can sort of you can control the situation. Depending on your photographer I have very good photographers. We need to look at the emotional part that somehow we're forgetting. Look at this thing as parents and the one that I still cannot believe is that Dr. Carver who refuses to allow those parents to come in contact with their children at the mort. He decides not to let any of those 20 parents to see their child in the mort. How is that possible? I am telling you if that was your first rape girl, first rape boy, you would knock people to the ground because you're going to be in that mort. You're going to be in that room and you're going to hug your girl, your boy. I'm not going to let my little girl die and be in that room all by themselves. I'm going to be with him. This is what parents will go to. I saw it Columbine. They broke the three barriers. I have seen parents climb the fence, storm the office. When your baby is in that school and somebody is shooting, that is your child. You're going to do whatever it takes. I never saw that at Sandy Hook. That's my 26 years of National School Safety Training all over the country. I don't see it at Sandy Hook. I hope I'm wrong but I don't see it. I don't see it. Remember that big old sign they had posted out there? Everyone must check in. Remember that big old sign? Flashing sign? Everyone must sign in or check in. One of my four year request is I want to copy of the list of all those that sign in on that day. They won't give it to me. Why? See taxpayer money paid for that sign. Tax payer money paid for someone to type it in, to message in. Therefore, if taxpayer money were used, I should know who signed in and where they're from. You know, I've been asking this for your question. Who's everyone? Think about it. What if you don't sign other consequences? If you don't sign in, I mean, it says everyone must sign in. That's a directive, I believe. If you don't follow those directives, are you going to be arrested? I requested under the FOIA laws a copy of the sign in law. And for 19 months, I have yet to get it. We have established the point of entry. It was, I can tell you, it's believed he was not voluntarily led into the school at all. That he forces way into the school, but as far as we can go on that. Picture 16 highly-trains Connecticut State Troopers entering this window at Sandi Hook Elementary School with their long rifles. Now, what you have to do when you post a picture of that shout out glass window, it is 42 and a third inches high and there's 35 and a third inches wide. Now, people have to picture these Connecticut SWAT team members and State Troopers trying to crawl through that window. The three stooges are smarter than that. They would send curly into the window, open the door for the other two. But try to picture 16 of them. And you know what makes me angry as a State Trooper? When I used to have to fill out those reports, they're sworn testimony. I can go to jail for falsifying it. But when they're looking inside, there are new town police officers are already inside. Why would you open the door? Why would you risk getting cut on the broken glass? We actually found the only footage, live footage shot by a helicopter. It's the only footage Alex that has a time stamp on it. When you see the people chasing each other in the woods and they're showing these people running and running into the woods because guess what they announced that a teacher just reported seeing two shadows running by the gym. Well, that footage was not shot till 12.23 in the afternoon. Now, why would you have chased somebody in the woods after lunch? The school was safe and secure by 10.35. As I explained to you in previous press conferences, we've done everything we need to do to literally peel back the onion layer by layer in examine every crack and crevice of that facility. And that does not include or exclude, I should say, the outside of the building. The outside of the building is also a part of the crime scene every single vehicle in that lot. So it's going to be a long painstaking process. I requested copies of all work orders from March 1 through December 13 that were initiated by the principal, the assistant principal or the head custodian on any type of maintenance work orders. I want you to open your heart, open your eyes. And the only way you'll ever understand this is if you're about to enroll your child in this elementary school and what you're about to see would you enroll your child and take a look at the first picture. This is a school that every national news media, the second day after the incident talked about what a pristine, what a vanguard school, what a picturesque, it is the school that made people from all over Connecticut move to save the hill just so they could enroll their child in that special school. Look at the bushes all overgrown and what do you see running down the side of the building? It's mold. Now think about it, these are kids as an entrance, it's a main entrance. The picture should speak for itself. Look at the rotten wood. This is an exit to a playground. How in the world did the wheelchair kids get out of the back of that school out of these portables when they don't even have a ram? They're not even ADA compliant. Broken gates. Now this picture was taken on December 14, 2012. And if you look at the writing, it's already been more that somebody's going to do some heavy beauty digging. See the initials on the asphalt called before you dig. There's a construction band by the storage shed. Everything you look at, it looks like it's been so neglected. Look all at the base of the wall. Look how moldy it is. Air conditioner in December. What happens most school districts remove those air conditioners and they patch up the window. They don't fall or code, they don't fall with procedures. And again, hanging wire. And take a look at the roof. I had their five year building maintenance plan and the roof in 2010-2011 inside that plan, which I have. There was no money budgeted for 210-2011, no money budgeted for 211-2012, no money budgeted for 212-213. It also said that all the carpet inside that school need to be replaced. Serious safety violation. The maintenance of this school is totally ignored. If there's one thing that I believe in is that we have cried. We have cried in how our school looks. This is mold. This is mildew. And then if you look at the grass, that is long, long term neglect. And again, take a look at the mold. I mean, this stuff is growing. It does not happen overnight. It's just filthy. I don't believe saying the hook is a functioning school. Nobody, nobody who loves their children would ever send them to this filthy school. I spend my lifetime keeping schools clean. And I'm going to tell you what, from the time children arrive, I mean this with all my heart. I want my school to be clean. It's called pride. I don't see any pride here. Look at the corners. What do we call this stuff? Look at the bottom of the doors. It's all water damage. It takes a long, long time to get monkey door frames and wall tiles. That's a watermark that is a sign of flooding. And again, Don Hoxbrough would have never let her school look this way. All it shows is neglect. Nick Black. Nick Black. You got room number 11, but you got to teach your placket says 10. At least they ought to get the door numbers right. I challenge any teacher, any dean of student sister, principal counselors. Please, as you're looking at this, tell me that's who we are. Tell me this is pride in our education. Please. It's a very meticulous process. We leave no stone on turn. We take as much time as we need. We use all the resources that we have available to us. We will do that in this case and then some. We'll go backwards as far as we have to go in this investigation and hopefully we'll stumble on answers. We actually have three teams now, three major crime teams in the community. Our local partners are working with us and we're going to move that as an expedite that along as quickly as possible. This afternoon I spoke with Governor Maloy and FBI Director Mueller. I offered Governor Maloy my condolences on behalf of the nation and made it clear he will have every single resource that he needs to investigate this heinous crime. And I will do everything in my powers, President, to help. To this day, for 13 months, I have been writing the Commissioner of Emergency Management Services. I've been writing the Chairman of the School Board Superintendent. I have written everybody. I want to know who was the incident commander on December 14, 2012. Is that a simple question? They refused to tell me he was in charge. I want to know who the incident commander was for medical services on that day. To this day, guess what? No return phone calls and no responses. Why? We as a nation, we as a people, we as a country. We deserve the truth. And I'm going to understand three years, three years and we can't get the truth. Three years and we cannot have a congressional investigation. Three years and we can't have a grand jury investigation. Three years and the FBI classifieds, the San Diego Excuse Shooting, is this top secret investigation. There's something more to the story. Ever since Homeland Security and FEMA got together under one umbrella, you need to look up the word capstone. Research the word capstone. Do you know what capstone is? Capstone exercise is a whole community event. Is that what this is? Yes. Well, Mr. Halby, what's going on? How did the whole community get involved in this? Nobody died. It was an exercise, a whole community exercise. Capstone is called a home and security, FEMA capstone exercise. It comes from the, it starts at the president's desk. What did he use? He used Air Force One to fly into New Town to pick all of those parents up. And do you know none of those parents live in New Town today? Now go to, go to Columbine. 14 students died at Columbine. 23 seriously shot in the injured. Half the parents who lost the child still live in Columbine. If you read capstone, okay, it must be an entire community event. There has to be safe base. All the churches have to be involved. The funeral homes have to be involved. Everybody. Do you think that the residents in New Town want to be remembered for the rest of their lives as the town of the massacre? We want to be remembered as the bridge to a kinder new world. I believe the whole community, I believe the Catholic Church, I believe the Fire Department, and let me tell you why they did it. They've got over $200 million since that exercise. New Town has got over $200 million from the federal government to use it any way they want. $29 million donated by people from all across the country. And then every parent, this is one that bothers me being a principal, okay? I've had children die in our school. Yeah, we've had fundraiser, but we never paid a parent, 281,000 because your child died in our school from his kid. Each parent got $281,000 and they complained because they wanted more. Are you ready? Not one lawsuit by any of the parents have been filed as of today. Why would they not file a lawsuit? On the flip side, every parent was paid $281,000 and those parents actually wrote a letter to the Attorney General, George Jepson of Connecticut saying they want more money from all the donations. They're complaining they didn't get enough money. Yes. I'm going to go and do it just publicly. Excuse me, you're a nonprofit organization. I'm going to have to start and come here. Where's my attorney? I'm right here. Here's my attorney. It's a 501c3 other right to inspect the books at any time. The Sergeant of Comparison figured out, okay? That's the way you can. What's your lot for doing that? They don't want you. What's on it now? So what? They're a nonprofit. They get federal funds. We have to wait for it. And he's called many times. What do you mean you'll figure it out? You're obstructing us from inspecting the books of a 501c3. Anybody can say they feel threatened. That's a question. And we have a job that we have to come here and make sure everything stays peace. Mr. Halbacker is working. That's fair. I'll just go by myself with my attorney. Wait until my Sergeant gets here. Okay? And then he'll make that determination. Well, polite. We're very respectful. All we want is polite and respectful. Respect. Let's call it a day. When you get my ID, I think only your face. As you can. You walk this man on my walking toe. I'm standing there. Are you walking towards me? No, I'm making that. I used to be a police officer. Show me some respect. How about you saying? I will. When you start showing me something, I'll start showing you something. I could see it. Right? I could see it. Very polite, very courteous. Yes. That's fine. Still, I operate. I hope you do. I do. We'll have no problems. Right? I don't know. Can you imagine no murders in Newtown in the year 2012? The FBI has to keep accurate records. They keep it for the whole country. Why do they do that? Because that's how the federal government allocates grant monies to states so they can fight violence. Now, here's Sandy Hook. They've already got over $200 million. So why? There's nobody who died in 2012 in Newtown. One thing that's becoming somewhat of a concern, and that is misinformation, is being posted on social media sites. There has been misinformation coming from people posing as the shooter in this case, posing using other IDs, and prosecution will take place when people perpetrating this information. Are identified. Again, all information relative to this case is coming from these microphones, and any information coming from other sources cannot be confirmed, and in many cases it's been found is inaccurate. So I simply, that's the newest twist today, that we want to make sure that's perfectly clear, that social media websites that contain information relative to this case are not being posted by the Connecticut State Police, are not being posted by the Newtown Police, are not being posted by any authorities in this case. So any of that information and people that are putting that information up there, in any manner, all right, that can be construed as a violation of state or federal law, will be prosecuted, will be investigated and prosecuted. Earlier today, a tragedy of unspeakable terms played itself out, in this community. Lieutenant Governor and I have been spoken to in an attempt that we might be prepared for something like this, playing itself out in our state. Hey, how are you? Hey, how are you? I'm just asking one question. Who shared with you on the National News and the Lieutenant Governor, that somebody told you something like this and saying you would happen to you here in the state? I mean, you know what I mean? Oh, you look good on television. Somebody said you said, someone told me and Lieutenant Governor something like this might happen. Nobody, if I can get it recording, send it here, would you look at it? Thank you, sir. Lieutenant Governor and I have been spoken to in an attempt that we might be prepared for something like this, playing itself out in our state. Call your congressman, Senator. They won't respond to you. Tell him that you want to copy the FBI report. Tell him that you want a congressional investigation. They do not want to talk about San Diego. Why? They're your senators. They're your congressman. They work for you. They do not want to talk about San Diego. And so here's my question to each one of you tonight. Do you honestly and truly in your heart believe that Sandy Hook actually happened? Yes or no? All right, number two, do you believe that children and teachers actually died on December 14, 2012? Sandeel, yes or no? Now, when I asked the question of people all across the country, I did it on their plane coming in here today. Do you believe it? They all go, yeah, how did you learn about it? The news told me. They actually believe the national news as it means to seek into truth. They don't even have the courage or take the time to ask questions. I used to teach American government in the last year and a half. Executive order. Are you ready for this? Signed without congressional approval allows the national news media to use propaganda in all of their news reporting. My sensibilities may not be the average man, but this probably is the worst I have seen. It's good thing it's not being prosecution because then I couldn't answer that, but if I sent in court they yell at me and don't make me answers. No, I don't. How young? Sorry, I don't. How young was this? If I attempted to answer in court, there would be an objection and then they'd win. There weren't cute kids stuck. I mean, they're first graders. There weren't cute kids stuck. They sent up a 10-part trial. It wasn't a 10-part trial. It was just magnificent saying it's sectional and it sticks together with Velcro. It's from the Department of Emergency Management. I hope they and I hope the people of Newtown don't have a crash on the head later. Doctor, Doctor, please. Either that piece of paper for me that says somebody's dead or occasionally a huge pile of evidence to convince them. So we didn't know if that's what killed her. We didn't know if she was dead before it happened. We certainly knew she was dead afterwards. You Hi. As you've probably noticed, I'm not the president. I'm just a citizen. And as a citizen, I'm here at the White House today because I want to make a difference and I hope you will join me. My name is Francine Wheeler. My husband, David, is with me. Our younger son, Ben, age six, was murdered in his first grade classroom on December 14th, exactly four months ago this weekend. I can't tie my shoes. I can't tie my shoes. How to grown up stew it when it just gives me the blues. I'm never so confused as when I try to tie my shoes. Maybe I'm too slow. Can't make that little bow. I pull the laces tight and then I almost pick my toe. I only get confused when I try to tie. I'm never asked for anything. Now from you or anyone, that's my turn to be selfish. It doesn't matter to whom these weapons were registered. It doesn't matter if they were purchased legally. The principal who got blessed or lost her life was just a very special person and all the parents knew that. Two years ago, I pulled my eight-year-old son at Asshole. Now, how's that for great parenting? You know, in my defense, in my defense, it was a stressful situation. You can describe him again. He was naked. That's it? No height? Weight? There you go, eh? I'm not sure. A very special person and all the parents knew that. You can just then run down here. It was awful. It was awful. You doing okay, huh? Woo-hoo. Okay. Thanks. Okay. Well, actually, my name's at the house to get her t-shirt or parachute. What happened with the t-shirt? They didn't tell us anything. Only what she knew is because I don't know if that's, you know, I do it. So we don't have any information. I don't know. That weapon had been in place. He wouldn't have had that gun. But what happened instead, what happened, you know, 22 decades ago was that the assault weapons band was left to expire. And they had started at that time. The CDC had started researching on ways to prevent gun violence. And what happened instead was that the NRA and the NSSF got a hold of some of our elected officials. And they were able to get them to stop trying to find out ways to get information to prevent gun violence. While we weren't looking, they, um, while we weren't paying attention, they changed the laws. They let these things expire. They're picking up this stuff. Well, I think that a lot of things that people here aren't true. And I know, I know the first couple of days I was just getting angry because I was hearing things that I knew didn't happen. Take us back to that moment. When did you first know something had gone wrong? I don't know. Hearing loud popping noise, I thought I could see him from the knees down, see the legs. Right in front of you. 20 feet away, facing his feet, his boots were facing my desk. And then he turned and walked away. And then turned, it was seconds and then turned to walk, walked out. And you were there for the next four hours? Nearly. Yeah. Yeah. It was 115 before, you know, we, we, we, we were petrified and we didn't know how many there could have been. And we were listening. You couldn't hear a whole lot, but we did. I mean, we heard screaming and the gunshots. And I know. Richard and Christopher Rico say that talking about their Jessica brings tiny moments of comfort. And she was a ball of fire. She ruled the roost. She, our little CEO, we called her, you know, she was, she was the boss. I know exactly what she was wearing. I knew I was going to see her little ponytail come around the corner and her jacket and her black glittery hugs that she had on that morning. And I knew I was going to see her and I didn't. They finally around 115 asked everybody to sit down and they said that it was a tragic day in Newtown today and 20 children were killed. I was amazed at the strength that Grace's parents showed. They say it is Grace who is guiding them through these difficult days. What do you want people to know about Grace? Well, Grace had such a great spirit. She was a kind and gentle soul and she was just the light and love of our family. And I remember that morning putting her on the boss. She had habit of blowing kisses, but then she'd give me a big little liver lip like but then she, I knew she was so happy to go off and get there. So, sure, we have anger and we're upset and we don't know why. So we'll just take the lead from them and we will not go down that road. But we'll let them guide us. And it's a hard thing, though, isn't it? Did not feel bad? We're going to go on and we're going to use her positive energy to help guide us forward. So we'll see if Robbie Parker, I assume he's going to come out to the microphones now and make a statement. Looks like the family is there and they're getting ready to come to the microphone. So, we'll listen to her. So my name's Robbie Parker. My family is one of the families that lost a child yesterday in the Sandy of Hook Elementary School shootings here in Connecticut. As the deep pain begins to settle into our hearts, we find comfort, reflecting on the incredible person that Emily was. I guess that's it. It's about emotions. It's about how people respond to a tragedy. I didn't see that in Sandy of Hook, did you? Parents. When I was a state trooper, the job I did not like is having to go to somebody's house at three o'clock in the morning, knock on that door and do what? A death notification. Ladies and gentlemen, when that light comes on, they look at me, step, we had steps and hats on and they know something's wrong. I'm about to give them the worst news that they could ever get, that their son or daughter just died. You want to see emotions? You want to see heartaches? Their life was just destroyed by my news. They hugged me, they grabbed me, they cried. They won't let go of me. I don't even know these people. And by the time an hour passes, I actually have to take me in my car and take them to the morgue to identify the body. Yes ma'am? No. Why? The reason that I believe there is such a push from Democrats. They actually, they truly, truly believe that this country needs to be without guns. And there is a reason behind that. It really scares me. When the United States government, okay Homeland Security, by so over 3 million rounds of hollow point bullets, who the hell are they for? Bill Rush. Can I tell you what? It scares me. Sorry, 6 million ammo. If he, when I was a state troop, we were never allowed to carry the hollow points. We actually would get fired if they called us with them. Yes sir. As soon as you hear Sandy Hook, the first thing that the Connecticut legislature did, they passed a new gun laws. Within a month, 350,000 residents of Connecticut became automatic felons because they didn't register their guns. These are people who owned their guns. They bought them, they owned them, and now they're supposed to turn them in. The tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary appears right now to have been a tipping point. For a national conversation about gun violence, one we've not seen in a long time. They can fire 100 bullets in a minute if people know what they're doing with them. We have to convince the Senate to come together and pass common sense gun responsibility reforms that will make our communities safer and prevent more tragedies like the one we never thought would happen to us. Yes. My name is Bill Begg. What's my inspiration for a comma tonight? I'm the parent of three new town students. I'm a grammar school track coach on the present, the medical staff here at Danbury Hospital. I'm with the newly formed group of United Physicians in Newtown that formed in response to the December 14 shootings. I'm the EMS Medical Director for Newtown in this region, and I'm an ER doctor that was on shift to December 14th. What's my goal in the next two and half minutes? My goal is to somehow convince you, Laddie Sweaters, that gun control measures that you hopefully will make a difference. Every level. One thing that I think is clear with young people and with adults as well is that we just have to be repetitive about this. It's not enough to simply have a catchy ad on a Monday and then only do it every Monday. We need to do this every day of the week and just really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way. It's not been five days since the heartbreaking tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. Over these past five days, the discussion has re-emerged as to what we might do not only to deter mass shootings in the future, but to reduce the epidemic of gun violence that plays this country every single day. That conversation has to continue, but this time the words need to lead to action. And I challenge you too, everyone that's watching this today, you can take those questions that I'm asking and ask them of your school board and they'll answer you. I go up the Newtown, they are stone-balling me. When I'm in front of school board, they've got the state attorney, Steven Sudinski, who wrote the report sitting in the room. Now what is a state attorney doing listening to me speak? This is my official license from the state of Florida. I am a licensed insurance adjuster and I'm licensed in all lines, property insurance, casual insurance, auto insurance. I am an adjuster, insurance adjuster. I've just never told them the money was a adjuster. So when we're looking at the documents, I'm looking at them if I've got an insurance adjuster, see if they can fly with all of them all. If you really want to find out what really happened on that day on December 14th, you do look at the insurance because you have property damage. Everybody? No, no, no. One, most school district, when you have damage, the first thing you do is you file insurance place. If they're true in that case, okay? We ask today for the, the praises report, okay? I'm an adjuster. I wanted to see if you get a justice report. What he found, what his recommendations are here, what the settlements were. We have nothing. Absolutely nothing. I've been filing FOIA requests since February 27th, 2013. I think every parent, grandparent, everybody in America has a right to know the truth. Every administrator, every teacher who works in our schools, they have a right to know what kind of environment they work in. But guess what? We should have been here today. But guess what? Monty Frank from Colid Wolf is off bicycling. But bicycling is more important than finding the truth. Now what is wrong in Connecticut? That America is tired of the gun violence. That Congress must act. And each day that Congress does not act, it remains complicit. And the gun violence that occurs every day, it takes lives. We urge you to pass a ban on high capacity magazines. Like the 30 round magazine that killed 26 students, 20 students and six educators at San County Hope School. No, I asked for consenting gender attachments that explain what's all the agenda to the police about. I got you. The first bullet point says I never want consent to gender. You see that? Yes or no? Here it has the calendar. But that's what you're not only to control the documents, I'm going to be that right. You can be that right. I read it, but I'm going to be the student. They sent you my question. There is that right. That's not half of the slide. Right. It can't be true. That's how the town was filed. Well, that's right. But I'm not. That's how the sub was filed. That's how you were filed. And you're here today. It's just going to be. I'm not getting any information. It's right. I'm in it. I don't believe it. And the town was filed. It does not have that. Right. That would be it. But if you have nothing, you don't have any documents. You mean, you won't be served. It's my touch. You know where it says that the town just not have its logic document. Absolutely. But you have documents for no time. You just don't believe it. I don't believe you. No question. I also know that there's a further objection. You have a question. One A is not a request for a document. Here's a. The students back, so they're not negative. Here's a. I'm going to have an objection to this. So. So we're sick. This is a. Figures. Some reason you're under the assumption that we did not supply documents. I'm going to apply entirely with the doctor. Everyone must check in. But the town didn't put it there. Who do you think put it there? I believe Homeland Security put it there. Okay. Oh, that's good. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Well, take out a second. I think the response from Sir Halsey's complete is appropriate. There's no evidence whatsoever that the personal life was here while in terror. I just said thank you. It is what it is. The test. What is the. I just said thank you. Completely uncalled for. And I'm an asset. Stop immediately. Let's try to keep things just. No more thank you. Okay. I've never ever after we issued subpoenas for people to be our witnesses to show up and verify that those documents exist. The attorney for the school board, the city of Newtown and the Newtown Police Department. They told our witnesses not to show up. Now, when have you ever heard of that? He's an officer of the Corps. How does he tell my witnesses not to show up for this here? And you know what? They didn't show up. Sir, have a year here today. Because you do not believe that the town has port-uponting records or responses in connection with the side issue. Is that right? No, I believe the school board. I believe the school board has the records. They have school board policies. They're required to show it expenders your taxpayer dollars. Do you have any reason to believe that I was not responding on behalf of the Board of Education, the town of Newtown and the Newtown Police Department? I do not believe. Turn your attention to the next deal. Which is... Can you be 23? Yes, sir. It's been a long road and this has been a long time coming. It's been since April 25th of 2014 that these requests were first made. Every step of the way that we've been met with delay and I said before obfuscation. I think it's up to the commission to safeguard the rights of citizens like Mr. Hallbeck who come forward and ask for this information. This is precisely the moment when this commission on a safeguard the rights or a citizen such as Mr. Hallbeck. I just respect your request. It's now produced all of the witnesses that were seeking this with two exceptions. Kevin Hanselotti, the reason. Respect the check again. She was at a cost. So there's nothing you can do right here on that second day. Can you take whether she was here or not? She was the principal of Sandbox Hall. Now she was not the principal. I'm talking to him about the 12th police side road. Again, I appreciate that he does a minor violation. I think the claim for civil penalties is outrageous. And I just respect your request before it be affirmed with one clear. The commission will be on the order. So there's a full... I know but he's lying. You don't have already. You're lying already. He's actually the same. I'm the complainant. That man is lying. You don't have a right to speak. I'm going to go for it. Never have been a liar like this man here. I tell you what, he'll talk about children. I don't say it. And I guess Cohen and both appoint at Monty Frank as the representative. But what's find amazing as I don't see Monty Frank ever at school board meetings. Now I've never seen in Florida when we have school board meetings. There's always an attorney sitting at the head of the table. How do you conduct school board hearings which are state statues, you know, state laws. And you'll never see Monty Frank in any school board meetings. You know, I've got an email last night at 1057 PM for my attorney stating that they wanted to cancel this hearing today. Can you imagine I've got a $600 plane ticket. They emailed me at 1057 last night saying they're going to cancel the hearing. And I'll tell you what, I got on that phone and I've raised all kind of hell. And you know what? I am sick and tired of being pushed around. You know, I might be 70 years old. I might be a senior citizen, but I ain't stupid. And I know the games that they're playing here today. Answer to God damn questions and I'll go away. So, uh, Mr. Howard, what is it that you actually thought you were going to get to do last week's time? What I was looking forward to, January 23rd on the consent agenda and the board approved that consent agenda 5 to 0. You shouldn't see a field trip with 26 children going to the super bowl in New Orleans, which is an other state field trip which has to be approved by the principal, the superintendent and the school board. Nowhere on any of those documents that have I reviewed, can you find that field trip signed and approved? That's what I'm looking for. And it should be on the consent agenda and the reason I say that, sir, is because if you look at the document that he just provided to me, you can actually see a field trip being approved on the consent agenda. Field trips are approved on the consent agenda. You just cannot find the one that I'm looking for and that's why I picked January 23rd because that's the last possible day for field trip to be approved going to the super bowl out of state. Ladies and gentlemen, in celebration of our beautiful country, performing together the Sandy Hook Elementary School chorus from Newtown, Connecticut and Grammy and Oscar award winner, Jennifer Hudson. Here's a question of half of everybody who's listening. We're the 26 kids from the super bowl. Where did they go? What are their names? Why were they given a gag order by the NFL and CBS sports never to talk about what they saw at the super bowl? Who gives little children a gag order? Board members superintendent, a little over a year ago, I sat in his chair, this chair, and I asked you for help about asking questions about an incident that happened in your community. Tonight I pass out one page and it has to do with your board agenda tonight. It talks about celebration of excellence. I cannot tell you how proud I am tonight. I got goosebumps. When I see a boardroom as a former principal, when I see this boardroom packed, standing ovation, when you got children in this room and you recognized them for all the good things that they're doing, I'm telling you, I got goosebumps. That's what you're about. That's what you're about. You got kids here, parents. That's what we were on. Standing ovation, standing ovation. But I'm upset and it bothers me to this day. Board members, you allowed, under you watch, 26 children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School acquired the Go on the Field Trip all the way from Sandy Hook to New Orleans to singing the Super Bowl. Can you imagine those 26 children that pride that they brought back in the healing process of Sandy Hook in Newtown? Those 26 children sang before over 100 million people around the world. These kids brought love back in your community. But I love that your school board agenda February 2nd, 2013. They sang at the Super Bowl win February 3rd, 2013. You know not one of your board members said one thing about their performance. Read your school board minutes. Not one of you acknowledged the fact that they did a great job, that they were excellent in what they did. I don't understand that. That's what your job is. How could you ignore that? I mean I'm about to fall out of this chair. These are somebody's children who traveled on the Field Trip. They represented you and you don't even acknowledge their singing. And then, how in the world could you not bring them those 26 children, the chorus teacher, and their families into this fort room and reward them with excellence? They represented you when they are introduced as the Sandy Hook Elementary School choir. They're representing the school board. They're representing their parents, their community. And you know what? You can ignore me. You don't have to look at me. But I tell you what, you didn't bother to bring them into this room, the shake their hands, the hug those children. Excuse me. My three minutes up. My three minutes up. I agree with you. But let me tell you something. If I were you, I'd do the right thing and bring those 26 children here, bring your parents, bring their chorus teacher. Why would you not recognize their excellence? I'm ashamed of y'all. I mean, you and I would never be talking if they didn't send those two homicide investigators. And I'm going to tell you what, they threatened me. They said, if I don't stop asking questions about Sandy Hook, they're going to be Connecticut State Police. We're coming to my home and they're going to arrest me. Then I had two deputy sheriffs come to my house telling me, they're going to be Connecticut State Police. We're coming to my home and they're going to arrest me. Then I had two deputy sheriffs come to my house telling me that the new town police chief wants to know when I'm coming to new town. And then they ask if I want any handguns. I said, it's none of y'all's business. My wife, my grown sons have been threatened. They've contacted their school superintendent's, board members. They've contacted community leaders and try to get my sons and my wife fired from their job. I got a demand letter called extortion or blackmail. If I didn't get rid of my website by end of August, if I did not get off of Facebook, if I did not get off of Twitter, they have directed me, this group of people have directed me to take it down. And if I did not do that by the end of August, that my family was going to suffer dire consequences. I'm off of Facebook, I'm off of Twitter, I have no website. You know why they're scared to death? That the truth is going to come out. You know, this is what the mobsters used to do in the old day. Remember when we were cops and robbers? They always attacked the family. We're going to kill your wife and your children and your grandchildren if you testify in court. Well, guess what? That's where we are today. They're now threatening my family to get me through stock. Once you bring the family in and they're scared to death. And I filed criminal charges with the FBI. I have filed criminal charges with a civil rights department of justice. And I'm hoping that somebody within those departments actually cares about their country. When I raised my right hand, we go into the job knowing we're never going to be rich. We're never going to be multi-millionaires. We go in there because I think we want to make a difference in people's lives. It's our calling. Ladies and gentlemen, I've seen death in Miami. When your police officers in here, bless you guys. We do it because we want to make a difference. Every law enforcement officer takes an oath. We want to make a difference. When we hear shots fired, our hearts start pounding. We've raised to get there because we want to save lives. I did not see that in San Diego. Today, the silence by the best detectives, investigators all across this country, police departments stay federal and they're staying silent about San Diego, elementary school shooting. How can they remain silent? They have a duty to serve, protect. You know, when you have an incident that affects millions and millions of Americans emotionally, I mean, we were drained emotionally by the funerals. We were emotionally drained by the time this thing took a downturn. But where are my friends? Where are my men in blue? And you know what? Pick up the phone. Call me. 352-729-2559. You are a bunch of cowards and you turn against your country. And why do I say that? Because you know better. We don't hold people accountable. Are we afraid? I hope not. I've got to reach out. I've got to find people who still love the truth. This country is in deep trouble as you know. If we don't come together as a country, as a people, we are in serious, serious trouble. We deserve better. We're better America than they're making us sound like. This is what America is all about. You know, it's all about communication. It's all about coughing, listening. But it's all about learning and working together. And you know what Sandy Hook has done? Sandy Hook has created panic and fear all across America and our public schools. We're now building prisons. We're locked in the law school to fence us up. We got cameras everywhere. What they have done is cruel. It is cruel. They use children and teachers as part. And I expect you to hold me accountable tonight. Don't you walk out of that door without asking the toughest questions. Now is the time for us to come together. Now is the time for all of us to be on the same page. If you cannot ever be another Sandy Hook somewhere else, what this government has done, and I play the God and I'm wrong. And if I'm wrong, I'm going to march by your two-metal hospital. I'm going to enroll myself. When you walk out of here tonight, every one of us is hopefully going to be on the same page. Talk to each other. It's all about communications, about trust, it's not about a power struggle. And we need to spread the word because Sandy Hook is the dominoe to make this government fall. Thank you. Hey, did you ever sign the appearance notice? You didn't sign the appearance notice at the hearing. You didn't sign the law. That's not going to make me feel sorry.