Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo stands during a news conference outside the Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas on May 26th. Photograph: Dario Lopez-Mills/APThe head of the Uvalde, Texas, school police force quit his city council seat amid criticism over his response to a mass shooting at an elementary school, according to a resignation letter the city government released on Saturday.
A top state law enforcement official said last month that Arredondo, the on-site commander during the shooting, made “terrible decisions” and officers at the scene lacked sufficient training, costing valuable time during which lives might have been saved.Mr Arredondo has said he never considered himself incident commander and that he did not order police to hold back on breaching the building.
And to think he just got promoted.