Texas state senator says Uvalde school police chief interview 'directly in contrast' with DPS
Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D) said that an interview that Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo did with The Texas Tribune is “directly in contrast” with what the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has said about the massacre at Robb Elementary School.
The Tribune published a story earlier this week that included comments Arredondo provided during a phone interview and from statements that his attorney George Hyde provided to the news outlet.
The police chief, who is under scrutiny for the department’s response to the shooting, told the news outlet that he “didn’t issue any orders” and “called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door” to the room in which the the 18-year-old suspected gunman had locked himself.
He claimed that instructions to other law enforcement officials not to enter the school building had never been given by him. He also asserted that he did not believe he was the incident commander during the situation.
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