A meaningless distinction. Arredondo prevented 19 officers from entering.
The police chief who reportedly made the call not to immediately send officers into Robb Elementary School to confront a gunman was elected to Uvalde's City Council just three weeks ago after running on a platform of communication and outreach to the community. Peter Arredondo, the chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, stopped at least 19 officers from breaking into the school as the gunman opened fire for at least an hour.
If this failure of a cop was the chief of the school district, he didn’t have a master key to the school. Don’t the school cops have access?