{"id":1802689,"date":"2023-01-11T16:19:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T21:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802689"},"modified":"2023-01-11T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T21:23:00","slug":"former-uvalde-police-chief-explains-reason-for-not-going-after-shooter-in-newly-released-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-uvalde-police-chief-explains-reason-for-not-going-after-shooter-in-newly-released-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Uvalde Police Chief Explains Reason For Not Going After Shooter In Newly Released Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fformer-uvalde-police-chief-explains-reason-for-not-going-after-shooter-in-newly-released-interview%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=1802689&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-->\n<p class=\"p1\">Pedro \u201cPete\u201d Arredondo, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/uvalde\">Uvalde<\/a> In an interview, the school district chief of police, discussed his terrible decisions after the shooting in May last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Arredondo interviewed authorities following the tragic shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde (Texas) that resulted into the deaths nineteen students, and two teachers. The interview\u00a0was acquired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/10\/us\/uvalde-school-massacre-arredondo-interview\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He stated that the key decision point was when he saw other classrooms that had children in them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOnce I realized that was going on, my first thought is that we need to vacate. We have him contained \u2013 and I know this is horrible and I know it\u2019s [what] our training tells us to do but \u2013 we have him contained, there\u2019s probably going to be some deceased in there, but we don\u2019t need any more from out here,\u201d Arredondo\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe ammunition was penetrating the walls at that point,\u201d Arredondo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/06\/09\/uvalde-chief-pete-arredondo-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telled<\/a> The Texas Tribune June 2013 \u201cWe\u2019ve got him cornered, we\u2019re unable to get to him. You realize you need to evacuate those classrooms while we figured out a way to get in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Arredondo was reported to have maintained his decision for over an hour. He even thought he heard him loading his weapon again. This happened after it became clear that Arredondo had children in the room with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Tribune reported that he had told Tribune that he \u201cdidn\u2019t issue any orders\u201d And \u201ccalled for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door,\u201d the new interview showed that wasn\u2019t true.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He claimed that he instructed officers to form a \u201cpyramid\u201d Keep to one side of hallway to avoid any crossfire in the event that the shooter emerges. He also decided that he would rather get rid of the shooter than pursue him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to clear out this building before we do any breach,\u201d Arredondo reportedly told police officers in the hallway that he was being questioned by law enforcement, as was captured on body camera footage. \u201cAs soon as they clear this room, I\u2019m going to verify what\u2019s been vacated, guys, before we do any kind of breaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cTime\u2019s on our side right now. I know we probably have kids in there, but we\u2019ve got to save the lives of the other ones,\u201d He continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Arredondo stated in the interview that \u201cWe\u2019re going to get scrutinized, I\u2019m expecting that. We\u2019re getting scrutinized for why we didn\u2019t go in there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI know what the firepower [the shooter] had, based on what shells I saw, the holes in the wall in the room next to his. I also know I had students that were around there that weren\u2019t in the immediate threat besides the ones I know were in the immediate threat and the preservation of life around, everything around him, I felt was priority,\u201d He elaborated. \u201cBecause I know there\u2019s probably victims in there and with the shots I heard, I know there\u2019s probably somebody who\u2019s going to be deceased. I know these weren\u2019t,\u201d He spoke out about those in the other classrooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He also said he thought the door in the hallway was locked but didn\u2019t try to get it open. However, he stated previously that he had tried to open them with another officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Children in the room with the shooter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/01\/us\/uvalde-911-classroom-call-delay\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It was successful<\/a> Uvalde police officers stood by in a hallway waiting to help. United States Border Patrol Tactical Unit staff eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/uvalde-police-chief-reveals-reason-slow-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shot<\/a> The gunman. Arredondo was arrested in August. <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/uvalde-school-police-chief-said-he-contained-shooter-classroom-protect-kids-outside\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fired<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro \u201cPete\u201d Arredondo, the former Uvalde school district police chief, explained his crucial, tragic decisions in an interview after the shooting in May of last year. Arredondo carried out an interview with authorities on the day following the tragic shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, that resulted in the deaths of nineteen students and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1802692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5772,6202,4443,6234,5614,3967,5982,7231,6842,10739,6195],"class_list":["post-1802689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-chief","tag-daily","tag-explains","tag-interview","tag-newly","tag-police","tag-reason","tag-released","tag-shooter","tag-uvalde","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802689","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\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}