Fed agents were instructed by local law enforcement *not to go into the school after the TX gunman.

[crickets]

4. So, the situation could have gone on even longer

if Border Patrol hadn't taken things into their own hands.

If you don't remember who Pete Arredondo is, that might be because he's been quiet as a mouse since a couple of terse briefings on May 24. Can't imagine why he hasn't spoken since. Also can't imagine why he still has a job.

https://kyma.com/news/2022/05/27/focus-turns-to-uvalde-school-police-chiefs-decision-not-to-send-officers-inside/

The Uvalde School District police chief is Pedro “Pete” Arredondo.

“A decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation,” McCraw said of the incident commander’s “thought process” at the time.

At the same time, children inside Robb Elementary School classrooms 111 and 112 in Uvalde repeatedly called 911 and pleaded for help, he said. They were in the middle of the deadliest school shooting since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre.

“From the benefit of hindsight where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision,” McCraw said of the supervisor’s call not to confront the shooter. “It was the wrong decision. Period. There’s no excuse for that.”

Pressed by reporters whether Arredondo was on the scene during the shooting, McCraw declined to comment.