How did the police believe this was a lone barricaded suspect? The Texas school massacre.

[Desk trauma]

Good to see people keep a good sense of humor when 19 kids are murdered

Todays satire is tomorrows public policy.

 

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From the must give the police the benefit of the doubt file: Uvalde parent who was handcuffed by police threatened with probation violation (timestamp 4:30) if she speaks to the media. #backtheblue

 

[BPPLEE]

Todays satire is tomorrows public policy.

Especially under the Biden Administration

 

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[Skye1300]

From the must give the police the benefit of the doubt file: Uvalde parent who was handcuffed by police threatened with probation violation (timestamp 4:30) if she speaks to the media. #backtheblue

OH MY GOODNESS they definitely have something to hide!

 

[essentialsaltes]

In battered Uvalde, where a police chief is in hiding, grief gives way to calls for accountability

UVALDE — Everyone in town is waiting to hear from Pete Arredondo.

As chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department, it was his call to wait more than an hour for backup

Police officers stand guard outside his home. He has declined to explain his actions... City officials, too, have assisted in the vanishing act. They canceled a previously scheduled public ceremony Tuesday and instead swore in Arredondo in secret for his latest role on the City Council.

Even state police complained this week that Arredondo has remained elusive to them, accusing him of not cooperating with a Texas Department of Public Safety investigation into the shooting, a claim Arredondo refuted. The New York Times reported Friday that the chief arrived on scene without a radio, hampering his ability to organize the response.

City Hall has locked its doors during business hours and declined to immediately provide any public records to reporters.

 

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'Rogue' Cops Stormed Uvalde Classroom After Child Called 911 to Say Teacher Was Alive

The officers who eventually stormed a classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, bringing the massacre to an end, did so after a student inside the room called 911 to say one of her two teachers had been shot but was still alive, The New York Times reports. Those officers went against the orders of school district police chief and onsite commander Pete Arredondo, and one could even hear a command in his earpiece not to breach as he moved towards the classroom.

 

[Skye1300]

I also read that they are closing the school down for good.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Uvalde schools police chief: I didn't know I was in charge at the shooting scene

The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history said in his first extensive comments since the massacre, published Thursday, that he didn't consider himself the person in charge as it unfolded and assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response.

Pete Arredondo, 50, the police chief of the Uvalde school district, also told The Texas Tribune he intentionally left behind both his police and campus radios before entering Robb Elementary School.

Arredondo's attorney, George E. Hyde, told the Tribune for Thursday's story that Arredondo could not do an interview on the day the Rangers asked because he was covering shifts for his officers. Hyde said Arredondo is willing to cooperate with the Rangers investigation but would like to see a transcript of his previous comments.

 

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Uvalde schools police chief: I didn't know I was in charge at the shooting scene

The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history said in his first extensive comments since the massacre, published Thursday, that he didn't consider himself the person in charge as it unfolded and assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response.

Pete Arredondo, 50, the police chief of the Uvalde school district, also told The Texas Tribune he intentionally left behind both his police and campus radios before entering Robb Elementary School.

Arredondo's attorney, George E. Hyde, told the Tribune for Thursday's story that Arredondo could not do an interview on the day the Rangers asked because he was covering shifts for his officers. Hyde said Arredondo is willing to cooperate with the Rangers investigation but would like to see a transcript of his previous comments.

Sir, please put down the shovel.

 

[Goonie]

Uvalde schools police chief: I didn't know I was in charge at the shooting scene

The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history said in his first extensive comments since the massacre, published Thursday, that he didn't consider himself the person in charge as it unfolded and assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response.

Pete Arredondo, 50, the police chief of the Uvalde school district, also told The Texas Tribune he intentionally left behind both his police and campus radios before entering Robb Elementary School.

Arredondo's attorney, George E. Hyde, told the Tribune for Thursday's story that Arredondo could not do an interview on the day the Rangers asked because he was covering shifts for his officers. Hyde said Arredondo is willing to cooperate with the Rangers investigation but would like to see a transcript of his previous comments.

A feature of US policing seems to be multiple jurisdictions that lend to this kind of confusion.

 

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A feature of US policing seems to be multiple jurisdictions that lend to this kind of confusion.

With the number of times the story has changed there is no reason to take this as anything other that damage control. I would say they will not get off that easy but I have no illusions about police being held accountable.

 

[Goonie]

With the number of times the story has changed there is no reason to take this as anything other that damage control. I would say they will not get off that easy but I have no illusions about police being held accountable.

True. But with multiple state police forces, it is an obvious flaw.

 

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True. But with multiple state police forces, it is an obvious flaw.

That’s not likely to have been an issue in this case and is nothing but muddying the waters in a desperate attempt to escape blame.

 

[Skye1300]

Uvalde schools police chief: I didn't know I was in charge at the shooting scene

The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history said in his first extensive comments since the massacre, published Thursday, that he didn't consider himself the person in charge as it unfolded and assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response.

Pete Arredondo, 50, the police chief of the Uvalde school district, also told The Texas Tribune he intentionally left behind both his police and campus radios before entering Robb Elementary School.

Arredondo's attorney, George E. Hyde, told the Tribune for Thursday's story that Arredondo could not do an interview on the day the Rangers asked because he was covering shifts for his officers. Hyde said Arredondo is willing to cooperate with the Rangers investigation but would like to see a transcript of his previous comments.

That is so crazy! It gets worse and worse!

 

[Skye1300]

 

[essentialsaltes]

Texas Police Want Uvalde Bodycam Footage Suppressed Because It Could Expose Law Enforcement ‘Weakness’
The Texas Department of Public Safety has asked the state's Office of the Attorney General to prevent the public release of police body camera footage from the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in part because, it argues, the footage could be used by other shooters to determine "weaknesses" in police response to crimes.

I mean, I think we're all hoping this is never again the police response to a situation like this, so I'm not sure what the bad guys could learn.

 

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants to block records about Uvalde school shooting response from the public
Texas public safety officials cite the "dead suspect loophole" to prevent records from being released

In the past week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has joined the growing list of state and local officials fighting the release of records that could help bring clarity to how the emergency response unfolded during last month's deadly shooting in Uvalde.

[Ordinarily, records are withhold to protect the official investigation as well as the rights of the accused.] "not to protect law enforcement for their actions in circumstances like this, where the shooter is dead."

 

[Nithavela]

Texas Police Want Uvalde Bodycam Footage Suppressed Because It Could Expose Law Enforcement ‘Weakness’
The Texas Department of Public Safety has asked the state's Office of the Attorney General to prevent the public release of police body camera footage from the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in part because, it argues, the footage could be used by other shooters to determine "weaknesses" in police response to crimes.

I mean, I think we're all hoping this is never again the police response to a situation like this, so I'm not sure what the bad guys could learn.

I dont think one needs to see the footage to discern the weakness of this police force.

 

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants to block records about Uvalde school shooting response from the public
Texas public safety officials cite the "dead suspect loophole" to prevent records from being released

In the past week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has joined the growing list of state and local officials fighting the release of records that could help bring clarity to how the emergency response unfolded during last month's deadly shooting in Uvalde.

[Ordinarily, records are withhold to protect the official investigation as well as the rights of the accused.] "not to protect law enforcement for their actions in circumstances like this, where the shooter is dead."

Swept right under the thin blue rug.