The school district sacked its police chief precisely three months after a shooting rampage at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, claimed the lives of 19 children and two instructors. In addition to unanimously voting to terminate Pete Arredondo’s contract on Wednesday, the school board also determined that he shouldn’t be paid for the time he spent on leave. Pete Arredondo was in charge of organizing the law enforcement response to the mass shooting.
When the meeting started, some people in the audience yelled, “Coward!”
Arredondo did not attend the hearing, but his counsel issued a 17-page statement stating that the Uvalde school board had fired the police chief following a horrific massacre.
It asserts, among other things, that Arredondo was not in charge of the Robb Elementary School scene on that particular day and that he had alerted the district to security concerns at the district’s schools a year before the incident.
Chief Arredondo humbly requests that the Board quickly reinstate him with his back salary and benefits and close the complaint as unsubstantiated because he “won’t participate in his own illegal and unconstitutional public lynching.”
It further asserts that Arredondo’s actions preserved the lives of several pupils who were unharmed on that particular day. At the time, there were 376 law enforcement personnel there, and they had to wait more than an hour before they could engage the shooter.
Only one other person, the acting police chief of Uvalde, is known to have been given a leave of absence because of the incident.
OK, Pete, who did you think WAS in command if not yourself?
That bus has already left. It’s too late throw anybody under it.
Gotta have a scapegoat. Probably comes with an extra large severance package and book deal.
Should charge every officer on scene for dereliction of duty.
Texas CODE OF ETHICS
AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, my fundamental duty is to serve the community; to safeguard lives and property; to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the Constitutional rights of all persons to liberty, equality and justice.
http://www.texaspoliceassociation.com/codeofethics.php
The town of Ulvalde must have a very unique charter if the school board can fire the police chief. Probably more to the story, the vote being advisory or symbolic
Lots of errors made that led to this, and the chief needs to fall on his sword and resign over this, but who approves the training that led to this committee meeting in response to an emergency?
@Sippin’ Coffee — Arredondo was chief of the school district’s own police force, separate from the town’s.
Wait… The SCHOOL BOARD hires the police chief?
What the..
Thank you Uncle Al!
Fat fuck should commit suicide…by cop
If I had lost my daughter to his negligence he’d already be dead.
The police had training for this just a few months prior to this happening.
Was it training or planning?
We know there is a plan in all this, would 21 lives matter to forward their agenda?
And yet, Joe Biden still occupies the White House.
How does a school board fire a police chief?
Pete Arredondo was the Chief of the Band of Cowards – but he certainly wasn’t the only coward involved.
Texas sure has devolved from those “One Riot; One Ranger” days.
I guess Texans have too since they tolerate this shit at the expense of the lives of their own children.
The whole Band of Cowards should be put out to pasture – after serving their time for negligent homicide.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
The job of the school “police” is to keep the peace, make sure the schoolchildren are safe from outsiders, and to secure troubled children, not face deranged murderers.
They were reluctant to confront the shooter because they aren’t trained to subdue violent, crazed criminals the way a real police force can.
IMO, they were glorified security guards who called the real police if some criminal activity happened on school grounds.
Part of the tragedy is the failure of the real police to take charge of whatever needed to be done.
IMO, of course.
Before a single shot was fired in the school, funeral home worker Cody Briseno had retrieved his weapon and was headed into the school to stop the shooter. The police stopped him. Told him to go inside and “Shut up”.
When the US Border Patrol tactical team showed up, the police stopped them.
This had to be a set up, many were willing to give their lives if need be, but the police stopped them.
Time to see through the bullshit agenda, if you haven’t already.
Firing this worthless f*ck doesn’t go far enough. He must be de-certified as a LEO so he can never work in LE again.
Why no one, still, to this day explains the FACT that there were 20 minutes this kid could have been taken out PRIOR to him getting to the school when he wrecked his grandmothers truck, fired on the funeral home worker who tried to assist the wreck, and walking to the school from the wreck all the while the cops were on his ass?
Fired – from a cannon?
Oh.
Too bad.