Uvalde's school district police chief said he intentionally left his radios behind when responding to the mass shooting because he thought they would slow him down

Insider ^ | 6/10/22 | Matthew Loh

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Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo, one of the first responders to last month's elementary school massacre, said he intentionally left his two radios behind when he ran into the building to try and stop the gunman, making it impossible for him to be in contact with most of the other officers on the scene throughout the entire situation.

In a phone interview with the Texas Tribune, Arredondo said he left two radios outside the school because he believed they would have slowed him down and that every second mattered.

One radio had a clip that may have fallen off his tactical belt, while another had an antenna that would have hit him as he ran, he told the Tribune.

However, the radios would have connected him to the campus and police networks, according to the outlet.

Arredondo said he also wanted both hands free to hold his gun so he could fire it more accurately.

Arredondo added that based on his prior experience, the radios didn't work well in some of the school buildings anyway, and that he would have turned them off in the hallways to avoid being detected by the gunman.

Still, Arredondo's admission raises questions as to how the hour-long ordeal might have been different if he'd been able to receive real-time information via radio.

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The Uvalde school police chief who hindered response to shooting had recent active shooter training: report

https://www.insider.com/uvalde-police-chief-took-active-shooter-courses-in-december-report-2022-5

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https://www.insider.com/uvalde-police-chief-took-active-shooter-courses-in-december-report-2022-5

[pepsionice]

Total loss of trust on this guy. He needs to get a job as a burger-flipper.

[SaveFerris]

(because he believed they would have slowed him down)

You can “slow down” a “doing nothing”?

[Houserino]

Yeah, like that fat tub’o’lard could ‘run’ more than 2 steps without falling over.

Now the left is trying to make him the ‘tragic hero’ in this miserable story.

[Mark17]

You can “slow down” a “doing nothing”?

Weren’t they “moving rather slow,” for over an hour?

[mabarker1]

LYING CHICKEN
$}{!T POS !!!

[backwoods-engineer]

I know SCOTUS has ruled that police have no duty to protect, but this guy deserves to be hung.

[Widget Jr]

HighSierra5 said it best:

Something is very wrong in that town.

[alexander_busek]

I know SCOTUS has ruled that police have no duty to protect, but this guy deserves to be hung.

Hanged.

Regards,

[Terry L Smith]

no matter what this schmuck says, or how the news outlets cut his paper dolls, the blame lies with his dereliction of the performance of his office.

GIVE HIM THE WILLIAM WALLACE TREATMENT, IN FULL!!

HE DOES NOT DESEERVE TO LIVE, AND THE SOONER THE BETTER!!

[Dr. Sivana]

This man’s excuses are as bad as Wally’s in Dilbert.

Wally’s excuses are funny because they don’t usually kill people.

[SaveFerris]

Wandering around, doing nothing, have been hard on their feet

[rdcbn1]

This was intentional. The guy wanted a high body count for his buddy Beto push his AR-15 grabbing agenda.

[Mark17]

Wandering around, doing nothing, have been hard on their feet

Yes, doing nothing, is a lot of exercise. /S

[SaveFerris]

Something is terribly wrong...

It’s just so inexcusable.

[Travis McGee]

[TalBlack]

Oh so now “he ran into the building to try and stop the gunman” funny he didn’t bring anyone out with him.

[Savage Rider]

Many schools have become dead zones for data connections because they don’t want kids playing on their phones.

[.30Carbine]

It reads like a Babylon Bee satire.