Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Chief Pete Arredondo
Posted on 05/27/2022 9:09:50 PM PDT by conservative98
Uvalde's school district police chief is under fire for refusing to let his officers engage the active shooter at Robb Elementary School, after the gunman barricaded himself in a classroom as kids cowered inside and called 911.
During a bombshell presser Friday, Texas Department of Public Safety head Steven McCraw slammed Chief Pete Arredondo for failing to engage 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, mistakenly believing the teen had finished his killing spree and was hiding out from cops.
'With the benefit of hindsight, from where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision, period,' McCraw said.
The assertion from the state safety official comes as the the school district's police force continues to face scrutiny for their handling of the shooting.
McCraw revealed that 911 calls had been made by students while locked in the classroom with Ramos, as Arredondo and his men waited outside the room for more than an hour.
Eventually, Border Patrol agents who rushed to the scene after hearing the incident unfold on scanners, breached the locked classroom door, with one fatally shooting Ramos.
According to a law enforcement official who anonymously spoke to The New York Times, the agents had been puzzled as to why they were being told not to enter the school and engage the gunman.
McCraw asserted that Arredondo, identifying the district chief by title and not by name, made a miscalculation assuming the active shooter situation had become a barricade event.
Arredondo, 50, become the focus of backlash from parents wondering if their children could have been saved.
Arredondo, who was born in Uvalde and was elected to city council just days before the massacre, has had an unremarkable career as a cop.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Leave it to the foreign press to do what the msm wont.
REPORT: This is #Uvalde ISD Police Chief #PeteArredondo.
He Ordered Cops To Wait. He Assumed Everyone Inside The Classroom Was Dead.
But Children Were Still Calling 911. One Child Told The 911 Operator, “There Are 8 Or 9 Students Still Alive!”
But, Chief Arredondo Coward Outside! pic.twitter.com/b2yEqwExHT— John Basham 🇺🇲 (@JohnBasham) May 27, 2022
#PeteArredondo This is the #Coward that held #UvaldePolice back from rescuing dying & terrorized children for over 80 minutes. Had the nerve to speak that night. “Some deaths”? he f**** knew it was a massacre, his D shriveled & children bled out. #shame https://t.co/IPi1h3ld2K— Caity (@MotherOfSquiddo) May 27, 2022
Uvalde School District Police Chief #PeteArredondo resign now....ALONG WITH EVERY OTHER POLICE OFFICER WHO WAS CHICKEN POOP (and didn't disobey his order.) THEY DON'T DESERVE TO WEAR A BADGE— Cabins4Rent (@NotMetruth) May 28, 2022
Chief Pete Arredondo, Ulvade School Police Chief should be FIRED...
He could've saved those babies lives... pic.twitter.com/iXPQLxe65U— Keep Your Covid to Yourself!!! Wear a Mask!!! (@CherylLynnOwen5) May 28, 2022
“...who was elected to city council just days before massacre”
Now things are starting to make sense...
Is a school district police chief associated with the city’s police force or does the district have a separate independent force?
Chief clancy wiggins?
Where’s your donut fatso?
Peter Principle.
I am amazed that other LE agencies would take orders from a school district PD, even if they did called themselves a “chief”.
Would have done better electing Rosco P. Coltrane
Where was the County Sheriff during the attack?
a quartermaster...
The 9-1-1 timeline indicts the Chief, as shots can apparently be heard on some of those calls coming from students inside the barricaded classroom from about 12:03 to about 12:47.
Lookatthe happy moron.🙄
And will have an even more unremarkable future. I predict a suicide in the near future.
Guarding the donuts
Similar crap happened in the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre when a Muslim kook who was known to the FBI killed 49 homosexuals and/or encouragers of that deviant lifestyle.
The Orlando Police Chief and other political players (apparently) made a deal with the homosexual contingent and framed the whole event as a way to get positive PR for almost anything queer.
The OPD chief would not allow his officers to enter the building during the slaughter. But I suppose lots of merit badges were awarded.
Hopefully Governor Abbott will put this department under state control and fire all the “bystanders in blue”.
Bump
prediction.... Soros money is involved
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