Uvalde school board fires police Chief Pete Arredondo after mass shooting

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BREAKING: The Uvalde school district's embattled police chief has been fired following allegations that he made several critical mistakes during the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School

from the district since June 22, has come under the most intense scrutiny of the nearly 400 officers who rushed to school but waited more than an hour to confront the 18-year-old gunman in a fourth-grade classroom.

"Chief Arredondo is a leader and a courageous officer who with all of the other law enforcement officers who responded to the scene, should be celebrated for the lives saved, instead of vilified for those they couldn't reach in time," Hyde wrote. Among those at the meeting was Ruben Torres, father of Chloe Torres, who survived the shooting in room 112 of the school. He said that as a former Marine, he took an oath that he faithfully executed willingly, and did not understand why officers did not take action when leadership failed."Right now, being young, she is having a hard time handling this horrific event," Torres said.

School officials have said the campus at Robb Elementary will no longer be used. Instead, campuses elsewhere in Uvalde will serve as temporary classrooms for elementary school students, not all of whom are willing to return to school in-person following the shooting.

 

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Doesn't count if they didn't boot him off the board as well. This bungler should never again be near an important decision.

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