Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo fired over botched response to shooting that killed 19 st

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This asshole had to be fired

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Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo was fired Wednesday by the Texas city’s school board.

His removal caps off three months of outrage over the botched law enforcement response to a deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers.

One hour, 14 minutes and 8 seconds passed from the time police entered the building May 24 until the gunman was killed, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw has said.

Arredondo did not attend the special school board meeting Wednesday that was called to address his employment. In a statement, his lawyer said Arredondo has faced death threats and did not believe the meeting was safe.....

A scathing report released last month by a Texas House committee faulted “systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making” by law enforcement and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.

It says that under the district's active shooter plan, Arredondo would have been the incident commander, but he "did not assume his preassigned responsibility of incident command." Arredondo has said he did not consider himself to be the officer in charge.

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1. Good

He's a coward.

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2. Wow, MSNBC was

there and the parents were really mad that they weren't allowed inside.

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3. For this thread

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4. He's not the only one who needs to go

Most of the other officers/departments there also had that crisis training. It can't be "just following orders" or "just following no orders" because they knew the procedure for active shooters. Hell, one of the officers had a wife in one of the classrooms. More need to go.