Posted on 05/31/2022 11:28:45 PM PDT by conservative98
UVALDE, Texas—State cops say Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo has not responded to a request for a second interview about last week’s mass-shooting massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead at Robb Elementary.
But he did apparently find time on Tuesday to assume a new gig.
Weeks before the shooting and the harsh scrutiny that has shone on him since, Arredondo was elected to the Uvalde City Council. Early this week, Mayor Don McLaughlin indicated the ceremonial swearing-in of new members was being postponed, which might have been convenient for Arredondo given swirling frustration with how he handled the catastrophe.
But McLaughlin confirmed late Tuesday that new City Council members had, in fact, been sworn in, as CNN reported. The outlet cited the mayor as indicating Arredondo had swung by City Hall and taken the oath.
This even as the top law-enforcement agency in the state was pointing its finger at the embattled chief for going silent, days after singling him out for inaction in crucial minutes that might have cost lives.
“Uvalde PD and Uvalde CISD are still cooperating; however, the chief of police for CISD has yet to respond to the Rangers’ request for a follow-up interview that was made a couple of days ago,” a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety told The Daily Beast on Tuesday.
In another statement to the Statesman, a DPS spokesperson clarified that Arredondo had not responded to a request for comment in two days. He also clarified to another outlet that “plenty” of personnel from both the Uvalde Police Department and the school district “have done interviews and given statements to investigators.”
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What a hero.
US News/World Report said a couple of days ago....this school had a serious problem with math/reading scores (about a quarter of the kids were meeting/exceeding what was expected).
(A spokesperson for the Uvalde Independent School District did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Attempts to reach Arredondo and the Uvalde Police Department on Tuesday were unsuccessful.)
What a surprise...
Can Gov. Abbot intervene in what’s looking like a totally corrupt city (Mayor, Police Dept, City Council, BOE)?
There is going to be a lot of pressure, rightfully so, for the city council to fire this guy from his school district police job. Either he goes or the city council goes.
When we still had a republic, wasn’t public corruption something the FBI kinda, sorta interested in...?
From March...
Uvalde City Council OKs retroactive pay raises, $2,500 bonus
Another place where public service has come to mean that the public exists to service its servants.
For more than an hour, police officers stood outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, waiting for the signal to burst into a classroom to neutralize a gunman who had opened fire at the school.
When authorities finally shot and killed the 18-year-old gunman, the carnage was staggering: 19 students and two teachers were dead, and more were injured.
Pete Arredondo, the chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, stopped at least 19 officers from breaking into the school as the gunman opened fire.
Now they're kinda, sorta involved with....
It is a very bad idea to disrespect the Texas Rangers.
what an epic chitshow.
I am amazed that the people of Uvalde have not run him out of town.
“wasn’t public corruption something the FBI kinda, sorta interested in...?”
They still are. The only difference is that now they’re organizing the corruption.
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