Elementary School Shooting in Uvalde Texas

I thought I heard an interview with the police chief Pete Arredondo (not sure of spelling) that he said when he first arrived on scene, he immediately took off his radios, checked his weapon and ran into the building. Upon entering the school, he went to rooms 111-112, but could not enter because he did not have the key to the door and could not enter it with a ram because it has a steel jam.

He tried several more keys that were handed to him, including the janitor's keys, but none worked. So, he had his officers start to break windows from the outside and bring the kids out through the windows. (This confused me.) At no time did he give any orders to "stand down." That came from another police group that was onsite.

Did anyone else hear this?
 

Pepper said:
Hope @PamfromTx doesn't get mad at me, but I think there may be a lot of corruption in this town's gov't @oldman
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I won't get mad. I have not lived there in 24 years and had no clue how 'bad' it is. It is such a small town that has many good people. What I don't understand is why they are blaming it all on ex-Chief Arrendondo? He's at the bottom of the list (CHAIN IN COMMAND) of all law enforcement who were present. I can't believe others (state law enforcement) have more power to say what can and cannot be done and yet nothing was done sooner to kill the shooter.

Funny, I hadn't checked this thread; I've been listening to music and then I saw a new You Tube video of one of the teacher's husband (a Uvalde policeman) who was receiving texts after the shooting. The other law enforcement would not let him go and retrieve her and perhaps have saved her life. She died en route to the hospital. Check out the video if you have time.

No, I cannot be mad.

Uvalde, corrupt? Perhaps.

I can't say as I haven't lived there in 24 years. But all of the law enforcement present were chickens. And I do believe that Arredondo is their scapegoat.

 
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oldman said:
I thought I heard an interview with the police chief Pete Arredondo (not sure of spelling) that he said when he first arrived on scene, he immediately took off his radios, checked his weapon and ran into the building. Upon entering the school, he went to rooms 111-112, but could not enter because he did not have the key to the door and could not enter it with a ram because it has a steel jam.

He tried several more keys that were handed to him, including the janitor's keys, but none worked. So, he had his officers start to break windows from the outside and bring the kids out through the windows. (This confused me.) At no time did he give any orders to "stand down." That came from another police group that was onsite.

Did anyone else hear this?
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There was one report that the lock was broken and they could have just gone in without a key. And why would the police chief take off his radios? That doesn't make any sense.

There have been too many conflicting reports and too many lies. The people in charge as well as all the officers involved need to testify under oath as to what happened. I doubt there was any criminal wrongdoing, but it seems like there was a lot of incompetence and cowardice on the part of the police. Let the facts come out.
 
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