still hiding
Posted on 06/03/2022 6:38:29 PM PDT by conservative98
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District board took no action Friday evening against its embattled police chief, Pete Arredondo, in a special board meeting called in response to last week’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
As incident commander, Arredondo made the decision to wait more than an hour for backup instead of ordering officers at the scene to immediately confront the shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers. The head of the state police later said this was the “wrong decision, period.”
Many residents had called on Arredondo to quit or be sacked, saying decisive action could have potentially saved lives. Although the agenda for Friday’s meeting allowed the board to terminate Arredondo, the board declined to do so.
Superintendent Bob Harrell said he is eager for several concurrent investigations, including ones by Uvalde County’s district attorney and federal Department of Justice, to run their course. But he told the 25 residents in attendance that he had no additional information to provide, other than reassuring parents that children would never return to Robb.
Just two residents signed up to speak at the meeting. Dawn Pointevent said her 7-year-old son, who was due to attend Robb next year, is now “deathly afraid” of going to school.
After the brief meeting, parent Angela Turner said she was disappointed the board did not fire Arredondo and did not discuss how the district would improve safety at schools.
Arredondo did not attend the meeting. He has gone to great lengths to avoid the public eye since the shooting. Last week he took the oath of office for the City Council, an additional position he was elected to last month, in a secret ceremony. Police officers have also guarded his home and workplace.
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The man should be in prison.
Just ask him what his “job” is.
Then fire his coward ass.
This meeting should have been held several days ago, where he was suspended without pay at minimum. We know enough now that his in action likely cost lives and that he has lied multiple times to try to cover up the disaster he caused.
The Good Ol Boy network in that town needs obliterated. And these assholes are shoring it up so it cant be touched.
Obviously none of the school board had a child murdered while this man knew about it and did nothing to stop it.
A pissed of parent may resolve this?
Uvalde schools Chief Pete Arredondo had no radio at Texas shooting: report
A personal radio is the first thing any officer or supervisor should collect the minute they arrive at work. It's standard equipment that no uniformed officer would go without. You don't go anywhere without your radio. The ones we used had a personal alarm included where you could pull the lanyard in case of an emergency. Each radio had the capability of sending your location, so a response team could be sent to the scene.
At the very least. If he were a police chief in Japan, he would have kneeled before the public and gutted his belly with a knife.
This man has no honor or morals. Gave no apologies to the families. Fire him immediately, imprison him and strip him of his pension.
“… quit or be sacked… “
Texas Tribune has always been liberal, but I didn’t realize it was British.
Maybe not prison, but he’s a coward and should be shunned. People should just turn their back on him.
Deep State patsy.
I know what you did there.. d;^)
Trying to figure out how to not be the idiots who hired that idiot.
And there you have it...
The people get the government they elect..
And that includes police chief’s
Only 25 people showed up at the meeting and only 2 signed up to speak. Looks like the cowardice in Uvalde runs much deeper than just the police.
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