{"id":1526901,"date":"2022-06-23T14:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526901"},"modified":"2022-06-23T14:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:19:42","slug":"uvalde-school-district-police-chief-put-on-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uvalde-school-district-police-chief-put-on-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Uvalde School District Police Chief Put on Leave"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fuvalde-school-district-police-chief-put-on-leave%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=1526901&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>The Uvalde, Texas, school district\u2019s police chief was put on leave Wednesday amid increasing controversy surrounding police response to the May shooting at Robb Elementary School, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-police-shootings-texas-9aa0ddb541ab37dd7b6526fc2cdb0bec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police chief Pete Arredondo has been put on administrative leave after video and reports show his response was an &#8220;abject failure,&#8221; according to Texas Department of Public Safety director Col. Steve McCraw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the beginning of this horrible event, I shared that the district would wait until the investigation was complete before making personnel decisions,&#8221; said school district superintendent Hal Harrell on Wednesday. &#8220;Because of the lack of clarity that remains and the unknown timing of when I will receive the results of the investigations, I have made the decision to place Chief Arredondo on administrative leave effective on this date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The investigation, which was supported by 911 calls and security footage, shows Salvador Ramos, the 18-year-old assailant, arrived at the school and began shooting outside at 11:30 a.m. on May 24. Armed officers arrived on the scene and entered the unlocked school at 11:35 a.m., but Ramos was not killed until 12:50 p.m., more than an hour and 21 deaths later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; McCraw said at a Texas House committee meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Arredondo did not believe he was at liberty to make decisions for other officers on the scene, assuming someone else had taken on the role of incident commander, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/06\/09\/uvalde-chief-pete-arredondo-interview\/\">according<\/a> to an interview with the <em>Texas Tribune<\/em>. Active shooter and incidence response protocol, developed after the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School and improved after the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, would designate the lead role to Arredondo, at least until a higher-ranking officer from another agency arrived and took control. Protocol stresses to confront shooters immediately, and Uvalde school police were reminded of this at an active-shooting training in March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don\u2019t wait for a SWAT team. You have one officer, that\u2019s enough,&#8221; McCraw said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uvalde, Texas, school district\u2019s police chief was put on leave Wednesday amid increasing controversy surrounding police response to the May shooting at Robb Elementary School, the Associated Press reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":929,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}