19 children and two adults killed in Texas shooting at elementary school May 24, 202

[Dachsie]

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Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo, second from left, stands during a news conference outside of the Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26, 2022. (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP Photo)
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Uvalde Schools’ Police Chief Resigns From City Council
By The Associated Press
July 2, 2022 Updated: July 2, 2022

UVALDE, Texas—The Uvalde school district’s police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead.

Chief Pete Arredondo told the Uvalde Leader-News on Friday that he has decided to step down for the good of the city administration. He was elected to the District 3 council position on May 7 and was sworn in—in a closed-door ceremony—on May 31, just a week after the massacre.

“After much consideration, I regret to inform those who voted for me that I have decided to step down as a member of the city council for District 3. The mayor, the city council, and the city staff must continue to move forward without distractions. I feel this is the best decision for Uvalde,” Arredondo said.

Arredondo, who has been on administrative leave from his school district position since June 22, has declined repeated requests for comment from The Associated Press. His attorney, George Hyde, did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment Saturday.

On June 21, the City Council voted unanimously to deny Arredondo a leave of absence from appearing at public meetings. Relatives of the shooting victims had pleaded with city leaders to fire him.

Representatives of the Uvalde mayor, Don McLaughlin, have not responded to requests for comment Saturday.

Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told a state Senate hearing last month that Arredondo—the on-site commander—made “terrible decisions” as the massacre unfolded on May 24 , and that the police response was an “abject failure.”

Three minutes after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered the school, sufficient armed law enforcement were on scene to stop the gunman, McCraw testified. Yet police officers armed with rifles stood and waited in a school hallway for more than an hour while the gunman carried out the massacre. The classroom door could not be locked from the inside, but there is no indication officers tried to open the door while the gunman was inside, McCraw said.

McCraw has said parents begged police outside the school to move in and students inside the classroom repeatedly pleaded with 911 operators for help while more than a dozen officers waited in a hallway. Officers from other agencies urged Arredondo to let them move in because children were in danger.

“The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” McCraw said.

Arredondo has tried to defend his actions, telling the Texas Tribune that he didn’t consider himself the commander in charge of operations and that he assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response. He said he didn’t have his police and campus radios but that he used his cellphone to call for tactical gear, a sniper, and the classroom keys.

It’s still not clear why it took so long for police to enter the classroom, how they communicated with each other during the attack, and what their body cameras show.

Officials have declined to release more details, citing the investigation.

Arredondo, 50, grew up in Uvalde and spent much of his nearly 30-year career in law enforcement in the city.

The Associated Press

[Dachsie]

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Why surveillance video of Texas school shooting hasn't been released


Jul 12, 2022


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Gov. Greg Abbott has now joined the call for footage of the Uvalde shooting to be released to the public, but the district attorney won't allow it.

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Dachsie comment:
Something seriously not right.

If I were a parent in Uvalde whose child was killed I would be frustrated and angry at the entire tenor of the reporting by this TV news channel. The emphasis is on something, the release of the video footage, that has nothing to do with the deaths and injuries. The lack of information of these subjects is the thing to focus anger on.

First give us more verifiable news coverage of the deaths and identities of the dead as well as detailed information about the seriousness of the injuries sustained by those "survivor" injuried and where they are now.

The problem is it appears that more gun control is the emphasis as well as secrecy because of incompetency. The kind of information I am seeking is glaringly absent. THAT is where the hiding and secrecy mainly is at this time. That is the kind of facts that can be followed up on by question people in the community who have direct knowledge of the dead and injured of this Uvalde school "shooting."

If none of that information can be satisfactorily proven to be verified and true, then it follows that we already know why the video tape cannot be released.

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Texas lawmakers say Uvalde response was result of "systemic failures and egregious poor decision …


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The failure of police to go into the Uvalde classroom while a gunman killed children inside was the result of "systemic failures and egregious poor decision making" among every law enforcement agency that responded, according to a highly anticipated report by Texas lawmakers released Sunday. J.D. Miles of CBS Dallas Fort Worth reports from Uvalde.
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Dachsie comment:

Mistakes were made. (the passive voice rules again)

sin venta

[Dachsie]

Dachsie comment:

Whenever you see official pronouncements involving the words "failures" and "poor" when the whole truth of what happened and why it happened has never been fully investigated and disclosed to the public, those words probably mean "success" and "high quality."

Texas has had many false events over the last several years and they are all quickly swept under the rug and forgotten. But hasty legislation for more gun control can often be the oh-so-swift action of the Texas legislature.

[Dachsie]

Dachsie comment:
I was unable to transfer photos and I think there was one embedded video. Paid members may have access to those.

Understand that this report is based on the assumption and the assertion that there was an "mass shooting" that was an..

" attack that killed 19 children and two teachers in a fourth-grade classroom."

You are not allowed to question that assumption.

And if you obey that unspoken command, then you must quietly go along with anything offered by the state authorities after that assumption is enforced.

Gutless liars and cowards is outcome any way you look at it.



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A makeshift memorial sits outside Robb Elementary School, the site of a mass shooting on May 24, in Uvalde, Texas, on June 21, 2022. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
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Texas State Police Launch Internal Review of Uvalde Response

By The Associated Press
July 18, 2022 Updated: July 18, 2022


UVALDE, Texas—The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced Monday an internal review into the actions of state police who had dozens of troopers and agents on the scene during a slow and chaotic response to the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting.
The review comes as a new 80-page report released over the weekend by the Texas House revealed wide failures by all levels of law enforcement. The findings estimated more than 90 state troopers were at Robb Elementary School during the May 24 tragedy.
It is the first time Texas DPS has said it would examine the actions of its own officers in the two months since the deadliest school shooting in Texas history.
Texas DPS said in a statement the review would “determine if any violations of policy, law, or doctrine occurred” during the response to the attack that killed 19 children and two teachers in a fourth-grade classroom. It said the review was launched last week.
Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw has previously called the law enforcement response to the shooting an “abject failure.” He has put much of the blame on the school district’s police chief for not breaching the classroom sooner.

Steven C. McCraw, Director and Colonel of the Texas Department of Public Safety, speaks during a press conference about the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 27, 2022. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
The findings of an investigative committee released Sunday were the first to criticize both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities in the South Texas city for the bewildering inaction by heavily armed officers as a gunman fired inside two adjoining fourth-grade classrooms.
Footage from city police officers’ body cameras made public hours later only further emphasized the failures.
Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to the school, but “egregiously poor decision making” resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman was finally confronted and killed, according to the report written by an investigative committee from the Texas House of Representatives.
Together, the report and more than three hours of newly released body camera footage from the May 24 tragedy amounted to the fullest account to date of one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.
“At Robb Elementary, law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training, and they failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety,” the report said.
The gunman fired approximately 142 rounds inside the building—and it is “almost certain” that at least 100 shots came before any officer entered, according to the report, which laid out numerous failures. Among them:
—No one assumed command despite scores of officers being on the scene.
—The commander of a Border Patrol tactical team waited for a bulletproof shield and working master key for a door to the classrooms that may have not even been needed, before entering.
—A Uvalde Police Department officer said he heard about 911 calls that had come from inside the rooms, and that his understanding was the officers on one side of the building knew there were victims trapped inside. Still, no one tried to breach the classroom.

In this still from surveillance video, authorities respond to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. (Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
The committee didn’t “receive medical evidence” to show that police storming the classrooms sooner would have saved lives, but it concluded that “it is plausible that some victims could have survived if they had not had to wait 73 additional minutes for rescue.”
The findings had at least one immediate effect: Lt. Mariano Pargas, a Uvalde Police Department officer who was the city’s acting police chief during the massacre, was placed on administrative leave.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said an investigation would be launched to determine whether Pargas should have taken command of the scene. He also disclosed for the first time that some officers had left the force since the shooting but did not provide an exact number, saying it was as many as three.

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Horrible terrible western public servants!

apnews.com: Uvalde report: 376 officers but ‘egregiously poor’ decision

July 17, 2022
Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, but “egregiously poor decision-making” resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman who took 21 lives was finally confronted and killed, according to a damning investigative report released Sunday.

The nearly 80-page report was the first to criticize both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities in the South Texas town for the bewildering inaction by heavily armed officers as a gunman fired inside two fourth-grade classrooms at Robb Elementary School, killing 19 students and two teachers.

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[Amanda]

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Matthew McConaughey laughing about Uvalde girl

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[Dachsie]

Matthew McConaughey - I can't tell if that was laughing or fake crying. I don't even know who Matthew McConaughey is. His reaction, whatever it is, is simply stagecraft.