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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,130 posts)
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 02:13 AM Jun 2022

Uvalde City Council denies leave of absence for Pete Arredondo

This is a way to force this asshole to resign or be fired



https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/special-reports/uvalde-school-shooting/uvalde-texas-city-council-denies-leave-of-absence-for-pete-arredondo/287-e18700af-b794-4abc-ae8c-70711d679889

The Uvalde City Council unanimously voted to deny newly elected Councilman Pete Arredondo a leave of absence Tuesday night in the wake of the Robb Elementary shooting.

Arredondo is also the chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District. He's facing national scrutiny for not confronting an active shooter who killed 19 school children and two teachers when he entered the school on May 24.

In recent weeks, law enforcement officials revealed that the children and teachers waited over an hour for officers to confront 18-year-old Salvador Ramos.

On Tuesday, Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw said Ramos could have been neutralized within minutes if Arredondo, the on-scene incident commander, had made the order to breach two classrooms where the children and teachers were waiting for help. Arredondo told the Texas Tribune in an interview that he didn't believe he was the incident commander.

This is a way to force this asshole to resign

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Uvalde City Council denies leave of absence for Pete Arredondo (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 OP
Kim Hammond is amazing. Hope she runs for Arredondo's council seat!! SunSeeker Jun 2022 #1
The guy wringing his hands over the leave decision tishaLA Jun 2022 #2
Uvalde Mayor said he's going to "start throwing people under the bus." sop Jun 2022 #3
One hour, 14 minutes, and 8 seconds LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #4
For this thread LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #5

tishaLA

(14,176 posts)
2. The guy wringing his hands over the leave decision
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 04:46 AM
Jun 2022

I just don't get. How can this be a tough decision even if he's a friend? He fucked up on a massive scale on his job and the decision not to give him an out seems like a no-brainer.

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