Posted on 06/22/2022 2:22:11 AM PDT by conservative98
After the Uvalde City Council voted against a leave of absence for embattled school district police chief Pete Arredondo on Tuesday evening, Mayor Don McLaughlin harshly criticized Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw for blaming local police in last month's shooting at Robb Elementary School.
It came hours after McCraw told a special committee in the Texas senate that there was "a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject" within three minutes of the shooting, but Arredondo "decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children."
McLaughlin told Uvalde residents on Tuesday evening that since the shooting, McCraw has continued to "lie, leak, mislead, or misstate information in order to distance his own troopers and rangers from the response."
"There were no less than eight law enforcement agencies present in the hallway leading up to the breach of the door at Robb Elementary School," McLaughlin said at a city council meeting.
"Every briefing, he leaves out the number of his own officers and rangers that were on scene that day. He leaves out that during this time, every other classroom in the building was safely evacuated by Uvalde peace officers with the assistance of Border Patrol."
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Uvalde residents ripped into Arredondo at Tuesday's city council meeting.
"Get him out of our faces. He does not deserve leave without pay," one woman yelled. "He failed us."
McLaughlin also confirmed Tuesday that Robb Elementary School will be demolished, saying "you could never ask a child to go back or a teacher to go back in that school, ever."
Texas DPS did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday evening about the mayor's comments.
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It wasn’t the building’s fault, so why punish the taxpayers by teating it down? Sends students a message that buildings are to be blamed rather than our politicians.
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I believe the school building is 30 or 40 years old. If they are going to do the kind of security hardening that they’re talking about then it’s probably cheaper to start from scratch and design a new one and then build it.
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Start from scratch at today’s land and materials costs? No, a tear-down would not be based on economics. It would be based on an emotional feeling that the building has somehow become cursed. We need to teach kids how to recover and move on, rather than to rely on costly emotional gimmicks.
If this is precedent, then when will we be tearing down the entire South side of Chicago for political malfeasance.
as I suspected. Not dissimilar to the Biden administration or most government positions. A mayor of South Bend is in charge of U.S. Transportation? Seriously, what was his expertise? And Granholm, spare me.
Too many weird coincidences.
I have long believed that some of the most dangerous people are those who don’t know what they don’t know.
When DPS, SWAT, or whomever arrived, it should have taken 10 seconds for Arredondo to say “Thank God, the professionals are here!” and to have relinquished command. I’m sure ego, and a completely overinflated idea of his own competence, prevented that.
But rest assured. Had the Uvalde cops been tasked with swatting a grandmother who walked across the capitol lawn on January 6th the full force and might of the PD would have been used to get her.
Exactly. Micro to macro, local to national.
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