The Uvalde school board voted unanimously Wednesday evening to terminate the contract of police chief Pete Arredondo after meeting in a closed session. Arredondo didn't attend the meeting, with a statement from his attorney saying the district wasn't following legal procedure as it moved to fire him and he didn't feel safe attending the meeting.[Previous story, published at 7:09 p.m.
The Uvalde schools superintendent has recommended that Arredondo be fired. State officials identified Arredondo as the on-scene police commander, though he has said he did not consider himself in charge. The attacker remained in two adjoined classrooms for more than an hour before officers entered the rooms and killed him, authorities say.
But Arredondo told a Texas House investigative committee that he did not consider himself the incident commander -- echoing comments he made to the Texas Tribune in June.In a preliminary report released July 17, the Texas House panel placed blame more broadly, outlining a series of failures by multiple law enforcement agencies.
Shoulda been done immediately!
FIRE ALL THE POLICE THAT WERE THERE, SINCE, THEY ALL ACTED LIKE COWARDS
Put him in prison for a decade
DUH! of course. He had no idea what to do. Hopefully they will hire a TRAINED chief of police. It sounds like they have to go out of their county to find one. NO one on that force had no idea what to do. I would fire them all! If not, get the right training for them now.
Long over due!
WOW, and it only took them three damn months!
I hate to say it but those children were allowed to die. Who knows how many of them could have been saved if proper action had been taken.
Good! Finally! He was in my view the most responsible for what happened, though others were also wrong and should be held accountable. He is not equipped to handle the job, especially with his immature response to being fired. This is not the end of the story.
Since when does a Police Chief fall under a school boards authority? They usually are under the Mayor.
Brokennfang Firing is not enough. An investigation of who gave the order for cops to stand around and do nothing needs to happen immediately.
In the statement from his legal team, Arredondo urged the school board promptly restore him with backpay and benefits.
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Three months later to get fired is almost the same reaction the police had the day of the shooting.
He should not be fighting for his job, money, pension etc. He should be in prison. His selfish actions killed 19 children and teachers that trusted him. How Dare he still be prancing around like nothing at the local grocery store. He needs to leave.
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Fat arse didn’t resign!? Some balls on him😂
STOP HAVING SCHOOL POLICE
His fault?
Why did it take so long!!
Watch the sheriffs bank account. I’m sure he is getting paid to be the fall guy for this FF
Is not fair for the person who died by his inaction Same as the police, it took them 2 months, everybody have to resign in the city Shame of human being
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Why did it take 3 months? That just continues the incompetent crap that led to the horrendous situation to begin with! The response should be: About Damn Time!
Those saying it took too long, it happened. Due process is necessary, even for people you hate.
Wonder how many job offers he’s getting? I’m sure there are some.
GUILTY
Prosecute him for negligence
Bet they gave him a hell of a severance package!!
It certainly took long enough!🤨
This should have happened that day.
Go to jail on failure to PROTECT AND SERV
This took too long.
Should be be in effing jail
Good riddance
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Vote out Abbott too
Hope he loses his pension as a result…
d_smithd0209 BFD…far too little and far too late
Well that was certainly timely.
Don’t stop there.
How about the officers that stood around doing nothing ?
3 months? They should have fired him immediately. Idk how he sleeps at night
It was good he was fired. Also, incarcerate the shooter's parents and the gun store owner, and bankrupt the gun manufacturer.
a man without honor
Everyone needs a fall guy
As they should! There’s no way in hell I don’t want him in charge of anything that has to do with any of my kids
Fire him? He should have been taken out back and dealt with.
He should be locked up for negligent homicide
donjr1961 needs to be next!
good, him an others should be charged for criminal negligence
Arredondo demanded the school board to immediately reinstate him with backpay and benefits in the statement from his legal team .
3 months. Who goes next?
The Uvalde Independent School District's board of education will hold a special meeting Saturday to discuss the ' termination for good cause ' of Chief Pete Arredondo .
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