Uvalde school board fires police Chief Pete Arredondo after mass shooting

CBS News ^ | August 24, 2022 | CBS News Staff

[NohSpinZone]

A gutless coward with no honor behaves like one all the way to the bitter end. I’m sure lawsuits against the board and city for unlawful termination are next.

[NohSpinZone]

Here was his official title: Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police.

[Sans-Culotte]

It is quite common for school systems to have their own police force, at least here in GA. Whether that is a good idea is another question. In some cases it seems that it has led to a system that covers up criminal acts done on school property.

It probably also leads to complacency on the part of the cops. For the most part, nothing happens there, and when it does, their reflexes have been dulled by too much standing around time.

[SgtHooper]

BINGO! When does the School Board even have the power to fire the Chief of Police? Strange hierarchy there.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

In a Perfect World, this would be the end of the story.

Look for him to be picked up by some Socialist Democrat-run city - NEAR YOU!

*SPIT*

[goodnesswins]

300!!!!???? All 300 should be fired. Revenge is likely coming.

[cgbg]

“In leadership, this is especially dangerous, because they can prevent others from acting.”

What such folks forget is that ordering others not to act is “acting” and is “decision making”.

At that point they are just hoping that someone higher in authority can make the decisions for them.

That is often the reason for the delay—the “leader” is trying to kick the decision “upstairs”.

[abb]

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.37.htm

Sec. 37.081. SCHOOL DISTRICT PEACE OFFICERS, SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS, AND SECURITY PERSONNEL. (a) The board of trustees of any school district may employ security personnel, enter into a memorandum of understanding with a local law enforcement agency for the provision of school resource officers, and commission peace officers to carry out this subchapter. If a board of trustees authorizes a person employed as security personnel to carry a weapon, the person must be a commissioned peace officer. The jurisdiction of a peace officer, a school resource officer, or security personnel under this section shall be determined by the board of trustees and may include all territory in the boundaries of the school district and all property outside the boundaries of the district that is owned, leased, or rented by or otherwise under the control of the school district and the board of trustees that employ the peace officer or security personnel or that enter into a memorandum of understanding for the provision of a school resource officer.

[wardaddy]

I live in a county with I think 350-400,000 folks one of nashvilles nine metro counties

We us county deputies who are assigned

Often women but not always

[lapsus calami]

 

 

17 pages of hysterics. Seems to me it's prerequisite language for suing to get his job back. That'd be the height of stupid there. Doubt he'd live long enough to collect his first paycheck.

 

https://www.scribd.com/document/588953698/8-24-22-Attorney-Statement

 

 

[Jotmo]

“Chief Arredondo is a leader and a courageous officer who with all of the other law enforcement officers who responded to the scene, should be celebrated for the lives saved, instead of vilified for those they couldn’t reach in time.”

Wow.

That is some serious world record, mind numbing hubris right there.

Wow.

[Wonder Warthog]

Thanks for link....

[1Old Pro]

Of course he needed to be fired. Accountability has become a joke in the public sector.

[Lazamataz]

"Chief Arredondo is a leader and a courageous officer who with all of the other law enforcement officers who responded to the scene, should be celebrated for the lives saved, instead of vilified for those they couldn't reach in time," Hyde wrote.

What utter gaslighting.

[Lazamataz]

I’m surprised he hasn’t eaten his six.

Liberals never do.

Guarenteed he gets a Police Chief job somewhere in California or New York or Maryland.

[MD Expat in PA]

Disgusting

[matt04]

That just makes it worse. He claims he did nothing wrong, then goes into hiding, then uses his lawyer to say he may not have been perfect.

[Widget Jr]

#50. Arredondo’s lawyer represents his client all right. 17 pages of self-centered reality denial is not going to get his job back. I already feel sorry for all the other lawyers who will have to spend years of their lives dealing with him.

[mabarker1]

Arredondo's attorney released a scathing 4,500-word letter that amounted to the police chief's fullest defense to date of his actions. Over 17 defiant pages, Arredondo is not the fumbling school police chief who a damning state investigation blamed for not taking command and wasted time by looking for keys to a likely unlocked door, but a brave officer whose level-headed decisions saved the lives of other students.

This fat-assed Useless turd of a "cop" needs to line up next to freaking Asshat baldwin so they can all scream not my fault in unison. 2 pathetic Wastes of flesh exchanging air and being total fornicating Jackasses that are of absolutely no use to the Human Race.