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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn battered Uvalde, where a police chief is in hiding, grief gives way to calls for accountability
The idiot school police Capitan and others law enforcement types are hiding from the press
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UVALDE Everyone in town is waiting to hear from Pete Arredondo.
As chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department, it was his call to wait more than an hour for backup instead of ordering officers on scene to immediately charge the shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. The chief of the state police later said this was the wrong decision, period.
Now, Arredondo is a man in hiding, as calls for answers and accountability grow louder each day....
For many, this starts with firing Arredondo and overhauling his department, which they believe failed the students it was supposed to keep safe.
They were cowards, said Salvador Hurtado, a retired farm worker, who said Arredondo should lose his job. There was one man with a gun, and they waited and waited. I read the signs on the police cars that say protect and serve. Where was the protection?
But residents here also expressed broader desire for transparency from city and school district officials, whom they feel have retreated from serving their constituents at a time they are needed most.
City Hall has locked its doors during business hours and declined to immediately provide any public records to reporters. The chief of the city police force, Daniel Rodriguez, has declined to answer questions about his officers response to the shooting. A Uvalde CISD official told a reporter, falsely, that the first school board meeting since the incident would be closed to the public.
As chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department, it was his call to wait more than an hour for backup instead of ordering officers on scene to immediately charge the shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. The chief of the state police later said this was the wrong decision, period.
Now, Arredondo is a man in hiding, as calls for answers and accountability grow louder each day....
For many, this starts with firing Arredondo and overhauling his department, which they believe failed the students it was supposed to keep safe.
They were cowards, said Salvador Hurtado, a retired farm worker, who said Arredondo should lose his job. There was one man with a gun, and they waited and waited. I read the signs on the police cars that say protect and serve. Where was the protection?
But residents here also expressed broader desire for transparency from city and school district officials, whom they feel have retreated from serving their constituents at a time they are needed most.
City Hall has locked its doors during business hours and declined to immediately provide any public records to reporters. The chief of the city police force, Daniel Rodriguez, has declined to answer questions about his officers response to the shooting. A Uvalde CISD official told a reporter, falsely, that the first school board meeting since the incident would be closed to the public.
Arradondo and the school/city will be sued for their gross negligence.
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In battered Uvalde, where a police chief is in hiding, grief gives way to calls for accountability (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Jun 2022
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hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)1. As well they should be sued.
I think the lawyers are waiting for the funerals to be over. Youve got to know that Thomas J Henry and others are just chomping at the bit. I hope they clean up.
The good ole boys network in Uvalde has circled the wagons. Its time they are made to understand that people who are not in the good ole boys club still matter.
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)2. "... would be closed to the public."
Open meeting laws are rescinded now???
ck4829
(35,070 posts)3. ...
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)4. They will never be punished like the victims' families will.