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.”
Mr Chase, you don’t want to know
Yes maam! I am one of the 99.9999% myself. The whole Uvalde story almost made me ill (as in commode hugging) and I’m a pretty tough guy! I don’t know when ANYTHING had as horrific an effect on me as imagining those beautiful little kids on the other side of that wall bleeding to death and nobody helping them. I must have said to myself a hundred times.........”you gotta be kidding!”
As a developer for 50 years, I can tell you that a normal “man” can put his fist through any normal sheetrock wall. Waiting for ANYTHING was criminal dereliction of duty (in my opinion).
“Duty” in the face of bullets coming your direction is HARD but those kids on those landing crafts at Omaha Beach somehow managed to do their duty! MANY THANKS to the Border Patrol guys that sucked it up and busted through that door and killed the guy.
Excellent post, Cen-Tejas. You’ve just described what so very many felt that day.
I don’t know any parent who would not have charged that SOB, taken a few bullets, and saved the kids. It’s all so unimaginable that it’s hard to believe. I remember watching parents be put on the ground by law enforcement. (Which leads me to believe that there is something very wrong with this story.)
I remember watching and thinking of the parents, “Don’t ask. Go around to the other side without asking, jump the fence and go in any window or door you can! Go to your car and crash the fence if you have to. (Of course, that was me being keyboard Mom from far away. I certainly do not blame the parents. They should not have been held back from their own children.)
This regime’s false flags aren’t even creative anymore. They’re in your face.
Zero respect for those that hesitated and listened to the gunfire ......while children were slaughtered .
Sadly yes sir ....
A competent SWAT team would have hit the windows and doors simultaneously. Squads crawl into position under the line of sight, then rise, break and rake the windows, and take out the shooter.
Indeed.
Appears that just being there isn’t the key, like you said, “Motivation”!
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