Anonymous ID: d75d46 Aug. 8, 2022, 6:12 p.m. No.17267121   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7373

Uvalde school police chief says he didn't know that he was in charge during the child massacre and explains why he didn't know about 911 calls from children inside

 

The Uvalde school police chief who has been lambasted for the lack of police response in the child massacre said that he didn't know he was in charge at the time and explained how he didn't know about 911 calls coming from inside the school.

 

Pete Arredondo, the chief of police for the Uvalde school district, made the revelations in an interview with the Texas Tribune that was published Thursday.

 

He went through a moment by moment recollection of what he did during the hour that the shooter was locked in with children at Robb Elementary School and kept killing them.

 

Arredondo assumed that some other officer or official had taken control of the larger response. He took on the role of a front-line responder.

 

He said he never considered himself the scene’s incident commander and did not give any instruction that police should not attempt to breach the building. DPS officials have described Arredondo as the incident commander and said Arredondo made the call to stand down and treat the incident as a “barricaded suspect,” which halted the attempt to enter the room and take down the shooter. “I didn’t issue any orders,” Arredondo said. “I called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door.”

 

Arredondo also cleared up the mystery surrounding why police didn't take more aggressive measures to save the children inside the school who were calling 911 and begging for help.

 

He said that he had rushed off to the incident and left his radios behind, which limited his access to information from other police.

 

To Arredondo, the choice was logical. An armed killer was loose on the campus of the elementary school. Every second mattered. He wanted both hands free to hold his gun, ready to aim and fire quickly and accurately if he encountered the gunman.

 

He said that when he made his way to the two classrooms of the incident that he had assumed the gunman had barricaded himself in. According to his account, no one in the hallway told him about the 911 calls being made from inside the rooms, and he had no radios to become informed about the calls.

 

A police tactics expert told the Tribune that the chief being without a radio was inexplicable and "inconceivable."

 

Arredondo went on to defend the actions of the police and said they did not hesitate to defend the teachers and children.

 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/uvalde-arredondo-radio-in-charge

Anonymous ID: d75d46 Aug. 8, 2022, 6:14 p.m. No.17267310   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>17266586

“You May Fire When Ready, Gridley” Charles Vernon Gridley

 

The history of the United States Navy is sprinkled with famous phrases and memorable statements. “Don’t Give Up the Ship” by Captain James Lawrence and made into a flag by Oliver Hazard Perry during the War of 1812. “Damn The Torpedoes” by David G. Farragut from the Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay, and “Scratch one flattop” said into the radio of Lt. Commander Robert E. Dixon when planes of his Navy dive bomber squadron sank a Japanese aircraft carrier at the Battle of the Coral Sea. Another famous naval phrase which remains in use today is “You may fire when ready, Gridley.” Who was Gridley? The only one of these famous phrases with a name in it comes from the order to open fire on the Spanish fleet by Commodore George Dewey at the Battle of Manila bay in 1898. These words were spoken to the captain of the U.S.S. Olympia, Captain Charles Vernon Gridley.

https://www.eriehistory.org/blog/you-may-fire-when-ready-gridley-charles-vernon-gridley

Anonymous ID: d75d46 Aug. 8, 2022, 6:16 p.m. No.17267423   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>17267385

It's not a fucking stupid comment you fucking retard faggot, especially when you consider the corporations are in bed with the federal government and all they are are interested in is fucking the American people over.

Fucking kill yourself.