The Uvalde School Police Chief is speaking out after the tragedy that unfolded at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas last month.
03.06.2022 - 02:19 / perezhilton.com
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police chief is finally explaining why he and his team have suddenly stopped cooperating with the Texas Department of Public Safety’s investigation into the devastating mass shooting that took place at Robb Elementary School last month. And his answer is just as cowardly and misguided as his response to the active shooter.
As you well know by now, 19 students and two teachers were tragically killed in Uvalde, Texas after an 18-year-old man opened fire in a classroom while police officers stood outside doing nothing for “roughly an hour.” In fact, the only substantial thing they seemed to have done during that time, according to reports, is keep desperate parents from entering the building and helping their children, including handcuffing and pepper spraying them, per The Journal. So infuriating.
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Now, the police chief is once again seemingly failing the people of his community by not cooperating with an investigation into their slow response to the shooter. Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the on-scene incident commander at the time, suddenly stopped providing investigators with information — and now he’s explaining why.
When confronted by CNN‘s Shimon Prokupecz on Wednesday, he explained he’ll start cooperating again “once the families quit grieving.” WTF?! Chatting with Shimon outside of his office, Pete declared:
When given an opportunity to “explain [himself] to the parents,” as Shimon put it, Pete responded:
Whoa… What an insensitive way to word it. To think that any of these families will just “quit grieving” one day, especially those that lost a child, is astounding. We should definitely
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Don McLean announced on Wednesday (May 25) that he was pulling out of his appearance, and he has now been followed by a host of other musicians including singers Lee Greenwood and Larry Gatlin, Danielle Peck and Larry Stewart of the country band Restless Heart.“I cannot, in good conscience, perform at the NRA convention in Houston this weekend,” Gatlin, of the Gatlin Brothers, said in a statement.“While I agree with most of the positions held by the NRA, I have come to believe that, while background checks would not stop every madman with a gun, it is at the very least a step in the right direction toward trying to prevent the kind of tragedy we saw this week in Uvalde – in my beloved, weeping TEXAS.”He concluded: “I’m a 2nd Amendment guy, but the 2nd Amendment should not apply to everyone. It’s that simple.”A post shared by Larry Gatlin (@larrygatlin)Stewart said in a similar statement: “I want to honor the victims, families, the town and our friends in the great state of Texas the best I know how.”Peck added: “After much thought, as a both a mother and out of respect for all of the families in Uvalde, TX during the heartbreaking time, I have made the decision to not host or perform at the NRA Event in Houston this weekend.
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