The former Uvalde schools police chief has broken his silence two years after 19 students and two teachers were fatally shot by a gunman who was confronted 70 minutes after opening fire at Robb Elementary School.
Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo has been fired on Wednesday over the hesitant response during the May massacre at Robb Elementary School.The former police chief of the Uvalde school district said he thinks he's been "scapegoated" as the one to blame for the botched law enforcement response to the, when hundreds of officers waited more than an hour to confront the gunman even as children were lying dead and wounded inside adjoining classrooms.
The indictment against Arredondo contends that he didn't follow his active shooter training and made critical decisions that slowed the police response while the gunman was "hunting" victims. "If you look at the bodycam footage, there was no hesitation - there was no hesitation in myself and the first handful of officers that went in there and went straight into the hot zone, as you may call it, and took fire," Arredondo said, noting that footage also shows he wasn't wearing a protective vest as officers inside the school pondered what to do.
"The guidebook tells you the incident commander does not stand in the hallway and get shot at," Arredondo said. "The incident commander is someone who is not in the hot zone."
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