Posted on 09/07/2022 4:08:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Five officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety will be investigated over their response to the May shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, an agency spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday night.
Two of the officers were suspended with pay.
According to Ericka Miller, a spokesperson with DPS, the five officers “have now been referred to the Office of Inspector General (OIG) where a formal investigation into their actions that day will take place.”
Miller did not specify what, if any, were the wrongdoings of the officers.
The news of the investigation was first reported by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE.
This is the latest development in the aftermath of the tragedy at Robb Elementary School, which left 19 kids and two teachers dead.
Nearly 400 officers from law enforcement agencies from across Texas responded to the May shooting in Uvalde, according to a report released by a Texas House committee.
The Texas Department of Public Safety had 91 officers responding — the second highest number of officers on scene.
Still, Steven McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, has publicly blamed the former chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Pete Arredondo for the delayed response.
Arredondo was fired late last month by the Uvalde CISD school board. Meanwhile, Uvalde’s acting police chief at the time of the shooting, Mariano Pargas, is on administrative leave.
Overall, the response of law enforcement has been highly criticized; they waited over an hour to confront and kill the shooter.
Multiple investigations into the police response are ongoing, including one from the U.S. Department of Justice, and a probe conducted by Uvalde District Attorney Christina Mitchell.
In an email Tuesday, Mitchell said she hopes “to have a full report by the end of the year if not sooner.”
Only five?
Scapegoat time. The Govt is investigating itself.
I think there’s only 9 on the entire force.
Is Officer Hand Sanitizer one of them?
This is not local cops, its Texas DPS aka state troopers who responded to support the local cops.
Bureaucracies use ‘retraining’ as a way to fake disciplinary action.
You are on the right track - retraining on operation of the hand sanitizer squirter should make it all good. Then case closed.
Almost 400 officers show up.
It takes them over an hour to confront the killer while all the victims bleed out and die.
The only person that was willing to go in and confront the killer was disarmed.
Only five officers investigated.
What the hell is wrong with these people?
“The Texas Department of Public Safety had 91 officers responding”
We’ve come a long way from “one riot, one ranger.”
Yup, they are the sacrificial lambs.
Bkmk
They going after the low hanging (and most likely problem) fruit
“Five DPS officers face probe over response to Uvalde shooting”
R-e-s-p-o-n-s-e is not how you spell ‘cowardice’.
Is anybody investigating the teacher who violated the rules and left the door open?
“Is Officer Hand Sanitizer one of them?”
Children getting blown to pieces is no excuse to slack off on good personal hygiene.
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There were nearly 300 officers present that day, by the time the event ended. It wasn’t just the Uvalde police at fault.
I hope out Left is paying attention to things like that guy at the Indiana Mall, and St. Kyle of Kenosha. I’d just as soon not have a shooting civil war.
Well for one thing they were getting paid way too much.
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