Posted on 05/30/2022 11:02:51 PM PDT by conservative98
The school police chief faulted for having officers stay back during a gunman's deadly siege at a campus in Uvalde, Texas, last week is free to take his elected seat on the City Council, the mayor said Monday.
Peter Arredondo, the chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, was said to be the incident commander who ordered officers to remain outside during the more-than-hourlong siege at Robb Elementary School last week.
Despite the ultimate presence of city, state and federal law enforcement officers who presumably could have pulled rank and assumed command, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said it was Arredondo's decision alone to await more resources for what he believed was a barricaded suspect.
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Arredondo was elected May 7 to one of five council seats by getting 126 votes, more than two-thirds of the total in the city of more than 15,000. He was scheduled to be sworn in Tuesday, but Mayor Don McLaughlin said the event was being postponed so the city's focus can remain on survivors.
Arredondo told the Uvalde Leader-News in a story published May 12 that he was anticipating the additional role.
“I’m very excited, I am ready to hit the ground running," the chief is quoted as saying. "I have plenty of ideas, and I definitely have plenty of drive."
McLaughlin said in a statement Monday: "There is nothing in the City Charter, Election Code, or Texas Constitution that prohibits him from taking the oath of office. To our knowledge, we are currently not aware of any investigation of Mr. Arredondo."
Arredondo, facing questions about the wait that may have affected survival for those struck by gunfire, hasn't responded to requests for comment since he provided the news media with initial information about the tragedy May 24.
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just more money in his pocket
his reward for performing well by getting the dems an anti-gun / anti-republican campaign slogan for the fall.
Too bad that didn't manifest itself when it came to saving the lives of those kids.
Fine. Now wait the required time in office and recall his sorry ass.
I was sort of thinking along the same lines. I couldn't help but notice that after the incident was over, there sure were a lot of rough tough cops being photographed.
But diversity is our strength. He scored high on the quota hire graph.
Crazy little town. They pay him they’re in charge of firing him. Do they not know how the us works?
The town doesn’t care, I don’t care.
Actually there isn’t a lot of diversity in that town—nearly 100% Latino I think.
If the guy had any dignity, he wouldn’t take the elected seat.
Wait for it as it will eventually be revealed that Sheriff Peter Arredondo and Sheriff Scott Israel are related some how...../s
If they can’t plausibly portray the pachyderm party as evil, they can’t function. Their brains glitch as if there is no oxygen. This event needed to happen before the school year ended or Summer break would be upon us until August for all public schools in the U.S. south. As if by magic, bingo bango, the moral high ground is served up for the donkey party to occupy, and a virtue signaling opportunity, a crisis they can’t afford to waste, is served up out of nowhere, all of a sudden, to save their political bacon like mighty mouse.
“...in the city of more than 15,000...”
15,000 of exactly what?
Well....it’s a one term seat, now.
Ideas and drive with no personal integrity or sense of responsibility or shame is not the greatest combo.
“I’m very excited, I am ready to hit the ground running,” the chief is quoted as saying. “I have plenty of ideas, and I definitely have plenty of drive.”
from the above statement plenty of drive, hit the ground running, plenty of ideas, plenty of drive, ALL ABSENT BEFORE AND DURING THE MURDER OF LITTLE SCHOOL CHILDREN
HOW DOES THIS GUY SLEEP AT NIGHT?
THIS
Very well indeed!
Oh, you mean if he had a conscience?
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