Another school shooting

The police ditched intentional ditched his radio because it was too heavy to carry. Can the failed response of the local Uvalde police force get any more absurd.

Uvalde School Police Chief Intentionally Ditched Radio During Shooting
https://www.thedailybeast.com/uvald...ionally-ditched-radio-during-shooting-he-says

In his first interview since the Robb Elementary School shooting, the man widely seen as responsible for the delayed police response told the Texas Tribune that it had been a deliberate decision to abandon his primary tool of communication with dozens of other officers before entering the school building on May 24. The choice to ditch his radio, Uvalde school district police Chief Pete Arrendondo said, was tactical—he believed carrying his radios would slow him down or hit him as he ran. “I’ve never heard anything like that in my life,” police tactics expert Steve Ijames told the Tribune, explaining that officers are trained to take their radios everywhere.

In the interview, published a day after The New York Times offered the first confirmation that Arrendondo had known that there were children alive and trapped with the shooter, he claimed that he had not known that he was the incident commander on the scene, and also explained that he had been foiled by a locked door, wasting time “praying” as he tried upwards of two dozen keys. Arredondo explained his 16-day silence following the shooting as a desire not to compound collective grief or cast blame.

Read it at Texas Tribune
 
gwb-trading said:
The police ditched intentional ditched his radio because it was too heavy to carry. Can the failed response of the local Uvalde police force get any more absurd.

Uvalde School Police Chief Intentionally Ditched Radio During Shooting
https://www.thedailybeast.com/uvald...ionally-ditched-radio-during-shooting-he-says

In his first interview since the Robb Elementary School shooting, the man widely seen as responsible for the delayed police response told the Texas Tribune that it had been a deliberate decision to abandon his primary tool of communication with dozens of other officers before entering the school building on May 24. The choice to ditch his radio, Uvalde school district police Chief Pete Arrendondo said, was tactical—he believed carrying his radios would slow him down or hit him as he ran. “I’ve never heard anything like that in my life,” police tactics expert Steve Ijames told the Tribune, explaining that officers are trained to take their radios everywhere.

In the interview, published a day after The New York Times offered the first confirmation that Arrendondo had known that there were children alive and trapped with the shooter, he claimed that he had not known that he was the incident commander on the scene, and also explained that he had been foiled by a locked door, wasting time “praying” as he tried upwards of two dozen keys. Arredondo explained his 16-day silence following the shooting as a desire not to compound collective grief or cast blame.

Read it at Texas Tribune
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The story about the Uvalde shooting is starting to get very confusing.

Two days ago the Mayor of Uvalde (the big guy that uses a walker) stated that there's a lot of misinformation about the Police Chief communication with the investigators and what he was doing during the shooting...

I watched the Mayor of Uvalde on TV in a live interview saying the Police Chief was on vacation and not even in town on that day. He went on to say that the media is responsible for confusing information about what had happened.

Luckily, I have playback and listen to that interview several times but I notice he referred to the individual as the "Police Chief"...multiple times...without using his actual name.

Thus, I'm suspecting the Mayor is "intentionally" talking about someone else and not talking about someone named Pete Arrendondo. That then makes me wonder how many "Police Chiefs" Uvalde has or why would the Mayor state the Police Chief was on vacation the day of the shooting and arrived back into town several hours after being notified about what had happened.

Further, he went on to say that the "Police Chief" has not been avoiding investigators and didn't know why they would say that. "The Chief has been communicating and in full cooperation with the investigators since day 1".

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So there were up to 13 state troopers in the hallway outside the classroom with all the necessary equipment to breach the door but apparently held back by the local cops.

Up to 13 state troopers waited in Uvalde school hallway during shooting: senator
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...valde-school-hallway-during-shooting-senator/

Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D) said there were as many as 13 Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers in a hallway during last month’s school shooting in Uvalde that left 19 children and two adults dead.

Gutierrez, citing a recent interaction with DPS Director Steven McCraw, said more than a dozen troopers were in the hallway at Robb Elementary School as law enforcement delayed its response to the mass shooting.

“He told me there was enough people and equipment to breach the door,” Gutierrez said of his encounter with McCraw, according to the San Antonio Express-News.

Gutierrez, whose district includes Uvalde, has previously said that the school district’s police chief, Pete Arredondo, who was overseeing officers at the scene, was never informed that children were calling 911 from inside the school.

He has also previously told The Associated Press that a state agency investigating the shooting found Arredondo was not carrying a police radio during the shooting.

Since the shooting, law enforcement has been sharply criticized for not immediately going into the classroom and taking down the shooter. Police did not breach the classroom for over an hour.

“They’re cowards,” Arnulfo Reyes, a teacher at Robb Elementary School, said of police.

All of Reyes’s 11 students were killed in the shooting, and he was injured.

“They sit there and did nothing for our community,” Reyes said. “They took a long time to go in. … I will never forgive them.”
 
Another shooting at a Texas summer camp, this time nobody killed but the shooter, a black guy in his 40s. Police acted swiftly, possibly the Texas cops are cowards label motivating a bit.

I don't know what he was armed with but I'd bet a very nice pizza it was a handgun not a rifel.

Edit: Possible suicide-by-cop? It seems he passed the chance to fire at a large group in a sports hall. One shot into a classroom but nobody hit.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...er-camp-killed-police-officials-say-rcna33291
 
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