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A Robb Elementary teacher is finally home after spending a month in the hospital recovering from being shot. He's also the cousin of the Uvalde police chief and says they haven't spoken since the shooting.
BI ^ | 21 hours ago | Isabella Zavarise

Posted on 07/11/2022 3:18:08 PM PDT by conservative98

A teacher at Robb Elementary who was injured in the mass shooting says he hasn't spoken to his cousin, Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, since the shooting.

On May 24, a gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers in Uvalde, Texas. Eleven of those students were in Arnulfo Reyes' 4th grade classroom. During the tragedy, Reyes was first shot in the arm. He played dead for an hour until the gunman shot him again in the back.

Speaking with NPR, Reyes said his classroom's doorknob had been broken for at least two years. He said he can't understand why his cousin claimed to have been searching for keys when Reyes' door was unlocked.

"I wish that he would have said, 'I'm going to go in there because that's my family.' But he didn't," Reyes said.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: backtheyellow; doorknob; doors; gutierrez; mandy; petearredondo; police; robbelementary; texas; uvalde; yellowlivesmatter

1 posted on 07/11/2022 3:18:08 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

That’s going to make Thanksgiving and Christmas awkward at grandma’s house


2 posted on 07/11/2022 3:22:46 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: DariusBane

Why was the door knob never replaced/repaired?


3 posted on 07/11/2022 3:35:12 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: conservative98

There was more at play here than simply incompetence and cowardice.


4 posted on 07/11/2022 3:36:59 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Yes

https://mobile.twitter.com/RadarAtlas/status/1529927662738849807


5 posted on 07/11/2022 3:40:43 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: conservative98

“A teacher at Robb Elementary who was injured in the mass shooting says he hasn’t spoken to his cousin, Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, since the shooting.”

I can imagine the police chief saying something like this —

Arredondo — “I didn’t visit my cousin in the hospital because this is an ongoing investigation ... (voice trails off) ... “

Some sort of nonsense. My guess is the real reason he didn’t visit his injured cousin in the hospital is that he was scared he would be asked questions by the press.

Uvalde is a very small town. For Arrendondo to not visit his injured cousin in the hospital after an incident like this is incredible to me.


6 posted on 07/11/2022 3:41:19 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: gloryblaze

It was probably on some list to be repaired that summer - along with hundreds of other items.


7 posted on 07/11/2022 3:42:11 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA (No longer in VA. Living the OBX life now!)
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To: combat_boots

Very interesting......


8 posted on 07/11/2022 3:52:42 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Better damned well believe it.


9 posted on 07/11/2022 3:58:36 PM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: SoftballMominVA
It [doorknob] was probably on some list to be repaired that summer - along with hundreds of other items.

Sure. But, my Lord, people are talking about setting up swat teams and squads of guards, and million dollar security systems and outlawing all guns, but then, when push comes to shove, one little measly malfunctioning knob isn't even maintained, and it didn't even matter.

SMH

10 posted on 07/11/2022 4:04:56 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: gloryblaze

And the 2 men in black who stood outside and watched the guy go inside after 12 minutes of him shooting outside were….lawn jockeys

Then again, the man who actually shot the guy was outside of the chain of command there.


11 posted on 07/11/2022 4:19:29 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: plain talk

Apparently he didnt even call the injured cousin ...


12 posted on 07/11/2022 5:19:29 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: gloryblaze

Well it is a gubment school. You know gubment. The one majestic thing held up as a savior for the myriad of woes inflicted upon humanity. But gubment schools can’t fix a door know. But gubment can bring us death dealing vaccines, send our young men to war in 1818 for no particular reason. Get us slaughtered in Korea and Vietnam. Create not one but two Iraq crisis situations. Do the polio blankets expose soldiers to nuclear blast testing use psychedelics as experimental subjects on citizens... etc. So no. Can’t fix a damn doorknob.


13 posted on 07/11/2022 5:57:07 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: conservative98

If my kid had been killed or injured in this incident I’d have already burned this joke of a “chiefs” home down with him nailed to the floor inside.

Then turned myself in and demanded a jury trial.

L


14 posted on 07/11/2022 6:03:10 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: gloryblaze

Why was the door knob never replaced/repaired?
= = =

To bolster a school tax bond for ‘school repair.’


15 posted on 07/11/2022 6:40:01 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Could you expand on that, please. What is the “more”?


16 posted on 07/12/2022 3:46:04 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: wintertime

I think we are correct in assuming that there is a certain level of confidence involved as well as cowardice. However somewhere in the chain of command including perhaps higher up than the police I think there were probably political i.e. how can we take advantage of this situation?

Strictly my opinion but considering the way the Democrats leap on these after they happen I’ve got to believe that they also try to manipulate them while they’re happening.
It is pretty obvious that Democrats relish the thought of mass shootings. I imagine at certain levels they sit behind closed doors and hope for them.


17 posted on 07/12/2022 6:13:17 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I agree.


18 posted on 07/12/2022 6:23:07 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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