{"id":1497299,"date":"2022-05-30T16:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T20:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497299"},"modified":"2022-05-30T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T20:44:53","slug":"city-council-swearing-in-of-uvalde-schools-police-chief-behind-botched-response-not-happening-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/city-council-swearing-in-of-uvalde-schools-police-chief-behind-botched-response-not-happening-report\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council Swearing In Of Uvalde Schools Police Chief Behind Botched Response \u2018Not Happening\u2019: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcity-council-swearing-in-of-uvalde-schools-police-chief-behind-botched-response-not-happening-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/uvalde\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a>, school district police chief being blamed for the botched response to the May 24 school shooting that left 19 kids and two teachers dead was supposed to be sworn in to the City Council on Tuesday, but the event is \u2018not happening,\u2019 according to an official.<\/p>\n<p>Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District\u00a0Police Chief Pete Arredondo was to be sworn in to the City Council on Tuesday, but the city manager said it\u2019s \u201cnot happening.\u201d Arredondo,\u00a0who led the law enforcement response to the massacre at Robb Elementary School and reportedly held back his\u00a0officers for more than an hour, was elected to the Uvalde City Council on May 7. It was not immediately clear if the swearing-in ceremony was being postponed or canceled, or whether it was due to Arredondo\u2019s disastrous performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not happening,\u201d Uvalde City Manager Vince DiPiazza <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreakingChesky\/status\/1531340012201160705?s=20&#038;t=aBYV3WWMQNKBKWgW3-YEUQ\">told an NBC News reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-388879\" class=\"wp-image-388879 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3.07.38-PM-325x576.png\" alt=\"Uvalde schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo was to be sworn in to the City Council on Tuesday, but the city manager said it&#039;s \" not happening \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-388879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uvalde schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo was to be sworn in to the City Council on Tuesday, but the city manager said it\u2019s \u201cnot happening.\u201d (Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District)<\/p>\n<p>Arredondo was the incident commander at the scene and ordered officers not to engage the 18-year-old gunman who had stormed the school and was locked in a classroom full for kids, according to authorities. Eventually, federal agents, including elite border patrol officers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-details-emerge-about-heroic-border-patrol-and-ice-agents-storming-classroom-and-killing-shooter\">arrived on the scene<\/a> and disregarded Arredondo\u2019s orders. They entered the classroom in a \u201cstack\u201d formation and a border agent killed the gunman.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman, who The Daily Wire is not naming in keeping with a policy aimed at depriving mass shooters of the notoriety that often motivates them, was killed a full 90 minutes after he first arrived at the school and began shooting. Local police have been unable to explain why they waited so long to enter the school.<\/p>\n<p>Texas DPS spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez told CNN on Thursday that police were inside the school, but didn\u2019t hunt down the suspect out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/they-couldve-been-shot-texas-cop-explains-why-police-waited-to-enter-uvalde-school\">fear for their own safety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{\" n>\u201cIf they proceeded any further not knowing where this suspect was at, they could have been shot,\u201d Olivarez said. \u201cThey could have been killed, and at that point, that gunman would have had the opportunity to kill other people inside that school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\" n>That answer did not help the department\u2019s case, especially as 911 call logs and a timeline began to take shape that showed terrified fourth-graders begging for their lives as the people responsible for saving them dithered.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/department-of-justice\">Department of Justice<\/a> announced Sunday it will probe the botched response by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/uvalde\">Uvalde, Texas<\/a>, police to Tuesday\u2019s school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was requested by Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin amid growing evidence that local police hesitated to go into the Robb Elementary School classroom as the 18-year-old gunman carried out the massacre. Local police have been unable to explain why they waited up to 90 minutes to storm the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,\u201d said DOJ spokesman spokesman Anthony Coley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uvalde, Texas, school district police chief being blamed for the botched response to the May 24 school shooting that left 19 kids and two teachers dead was supposed to be sworn in to the City Council on Tuesday, but the event is \u2018not happening,\u2019 according to an official. 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