Posted on 06/09/2022 9:35:54 PM PDT by conservative98
Law enforcement waited about an hour and 20 minutes to breach the classroom where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas last month, even though they knew that some victims in the classroom were still alive and needed urgent medical attention, according to a review of investigative records by the New York Times.
The new details offer a clearer timeline of the police response to the tragedy, which has been marred by contradictions and inaccurate information from officials.
Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school police chief who assumed the role of incident commander at the scene, decided to clear the rest of the school instead of immediately confronting the gunman.
"People are going to ask why we’re taking so long," a man who investigators believe is Arredondo told other officers at the scene, according to a transcript of body camera footage reviewed by the Times. "We’re trying to preserve the rest of the life."
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said in the days after the shooting that Arredondo made the "wrong decision" not to immediately confront the shooter.
There were 33 children and three teachers inside classrooms 111 and 112, more than a dozen of whom were still alive during that hour and 17 minutes, according to the Times.
A teacher inside the room, Eva Mireles, called her husband, Uvalde school district police officer Ruben Ruiz, and said that she was wounded.
"She says she is shot," Ruiz told other officers as he arrived at the school around 11:48 a.m., according to the body camera transcript reviewed by the Times.
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Mireles died in an ambulance and three children died at hospitals after the shooting, according to the Times.
The grandfather of one of the children who died at the hospital, 10-year-old Xavier Lopez, blamed the police for not getting his grandson medical attention sooner.
“He could have been saved,” the boy’s grandfather told the Times. “The police did not go in for more than an hour. He bled out.”
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Arredondo has not responded to multiple requests for comment.
Fat coward.
This man needs to resign. He’s probly already polarized the whole county by now. I wouldn’t let him be on city council, no way! Doesn’t failure to follow procedure that results in mass death grounds for derilection of duty? He needs to be fired before the vigilantes show up.
Some people are worthy of a slow and painful death.
Aka “the boats”.
It’s 2 weparate political subdivisions so council can’t act against misconduct in another government entity, unless he’s first convicted of a crime warranting remove..
However, if he was honorable, which has been determined not to be the case, he would resign and disappear.
On the bright side, Texas municipal laws allow removal of an elected councilman if he misses 3 or more consecutive scheduled meetings. I bet this happens.
Cops are your friends.
Just remember that.
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Why was there so much lying by the police, early in their explanation?
I heard he’s a Beto supporter and if you’ll recall, next day of the shooting Beto used the shooting to draw attention to himself by crashing the Abbott press conference.
We have an archaic LEO structure.
County LEOs are fine. But every state should have an elite LE arm of exceptional personnel granted extreme latitude.
His efforts to maximize the body count will not go unrewarded by the deep state.
Extra honey and more food for my guy Pete over here!
Honey under am N-95 face mask.
Couldn’t risk them catching the CCP-cooties and coming to swifter end.
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The boy would prefer that the NRA and its members take the hit for his fluster.....
Anubody know if this clown is documented?
Even Barney Fife would have put his bullet in his gun
Yeah. Jane’s Addiction was prophetic with “Nothing is Shocking”.
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