Texas school police chief says he didn’t
think he was in charge during shooting
Guardian [UK] and Agencies,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/10/2022 11:55:30 AM
The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in US history said in his first extensive comments that he did not consider himself the person in charge as the massacre unfolded and assumed someone else was.
Pete Arredondo, the police chief of the Uvalde school district, also told the Texas Tribune in an interview published Thursday that he intentionally left behind both his police and campus radios before entering Robb elementary school.(Snip)Poor radio communications is among the concerns raised about how police handled the 24 May shooting and why they didn’t confront the gunman for more than an hour
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 6/10/2022 12:22:45 PM (No. 1181862)
"...he didn't think...." Well, I might believe that part. The rest of it, not so much .
If only they all hadn't been cowardly fools, just standing around.......
IF, IF, IF..... and yet they did stand around, they did run away from the first fight, and they DID let the children continue to get shot, and then let them all bleed to death for 45 minutes before one or two brave guys went in on their own say-so.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hazymac 6/10/2022 12:26:55 PM (No. 1181869)
Damned bureaucratic poltroon. He shouldn't be wearing a uniform. To handle the shooter, it took a Border Patrol agent getting a haircut who leaped out of a barber's chair (hair half cut), borrowed a shotgun from his barber, gained entrance to the school room, and killed the murderer. He took care of business.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Quigley 6/10/2022 12:30:17 PM (No. 1181874)
Obviously, the responders’ critical confusion had no effect and is unavoidable anyway. Let’s just make it illegal for good citizens to have guns; criminals can have them because we don’t prosecute criminals for unimportant crimes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Catherine 6/10/2022 12:32:51 PM (No. 1181881)
Frankly, I find the police response scarier than the shooter. Since when do grown men stand around while children are being shot and allowed to die. The more I learn about this, the weirder it gets. I think there is a lot more to this story and most likely none of it good.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FromTheRight2 6/10/2022 12:54:28 PM (No. 1181898)
Pretty much as I thought the first day. With school, local, state and fed on site, no one knew who the H##l was in charge.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hershey 6/10/2022 12:56:45 PM (No. 1181899)
When you 'assume' it makes an ass out of u and me....
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Nimby 6/10/2022 12:56:46 PM (No. 1181900)
Is this a grown a$$ man speaking?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative 6/10/2022 1:22:35 PM (No. 1181917)
We need to hire 100,000 more...that solves the problem. Toss in armed teachers and combat vets patrolling the halls. All that will be missing is orange jumpsuits. These mass shootings are more rare than being hit by lightning. Anyone wearing lightning rods on their heads? Let's get real about the dangers and the level of security necessary. In Uvalde a locked door would have been a big help in keeping those kids secure.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/10/2022 1:28:28 PM (No. 1181923)
It took him two weeks to come up with that flimsy, cowardly excuse. The title is "Chief" dude, what does that mean? If one of his men had somehow not gotten the message to stand behind cover and taken out the shooter, the "Chief" would be grabbing every available microphone to declare himself a hero.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
rochow 6/10/2022 1:31:43 PM (No. 1181927)
Trying to keep his job and his pension! Sue this jerk!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/10/2022 1:55:23 PM (No. 1181957)
Just got elected to city council. Trying desperately to hang on to new job.
Suggest Tar and Feathers and out of town on a rail
Useless incompetent idiots need to GO.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Luandir 6/10/2022 2:44:10 PM (No. 1182012)
With all that standing around, was there no discussion of "Who's in charge here?"
Pete Arredondo should not be in charge of a burned-out match.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
smokincol 6/10/2022 3:33:36 PM (No. 1182056)
that's exactly what happens when the feds (FBI, ATF, DEA,, etc) show up and intimidate the local chief into believing he has no authority in the investigation of the incident
this all started during the 60' & 70's and went right along with the enlargement of the federal agencies
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
gop_guys 6/10/2022 3:41:40 PM (No. 1182065)
Where was the county sheriff? My understanding is his authority supersedes all else.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 6/10/2022 5:50:33 PM (No. 1182197)
But he did think two times and gave money to the Biden campaign.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LadyVet 6/10/2022 7:06:46 PM (No. 1182255)
Why did he think that the radio might not work? It should have been tried out in every building.
Why would he not have a key that worked?
Why would he think anyone else was in charge?
AND why was there a male teacher inside who decided to play dead the entire time while children got slaughtered around him?
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What ever happened to brave men who would rescue a child, even if it meant disobeying an idiot of a boss?
By the way, same comment about the new "FBI whistleblowers", who are only speaking up after being fired!!!
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If only the Brave First Responders brought their radios, or had a key to the classroom, or knew who was in charge, those kids would be alive and the Democrat Socialists would not be doing a full-court press for "gun control."