Anonymous ID: 294814 Aug. 13, 2022, 6:34 p.m. No.17391265   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Uvalde ISD Police Chief Stops Cooperating, Sworn In As City Council Member Days After Botched Shooting Response

 

Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo has stopped cooperating with state investigators and has stopped responding to requests for information for several days, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

 

Arredondo was in command during last week's mass shooting that left 19 fourth-graders and two teachers dead, and has received harsh criticism for ordering officers not to breach the classroom and neutralize the 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos for over an hour because Arredondo "believed that it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject" and that children were not at risk.

 

The Texas Tribune reports that Texas Rangers have attempted to continue talking to Arredondo, chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, however he hasn't answered a request made three days ago for a follow-up interview, according to two spokespeople for DPS.

 

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s police department and the Uvalde Police Department have otherwise been cooperating with the Rangers’ investigation, DPS spokesperson Travis Considine said.

 

Amid the turmoil, Texas’ largest police union — the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, or CLEAT — urged its members Tuesday in a statement to “cooperate fully” with investigations into the police response to the Uvalde massacre — though they didn’t name Arredondo. -Texas Tribune

 

The news comes as Arredondo, 50, was quietly sworn in as a city council member Tuesday night after being elected earlier this month before the shooting.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uvalde-isd-police-chief-stops-cooperating-sworn-city-council-member-days-after-botched