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Uvalde school police chief “decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” Texas DPS director says

Steve McCraw testified before a Texas Senate committee, laying blame on local police officers in Uvalde for not acting faster to save children during the school shooting.

The Texas Tribune

Uvalde response to mass shooting was ‘abject failure’ that put lives of officers above children, hearing told

Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, gave damning testimony on Tuesday morning saying that ‘terrible decisions were made’ by Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo

The Independent UK

Uvalde response even worse than reported

Officers had weapons, shields and a tool to break open the door — but didn't try to open the door for over an hour

Salon

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“If there’s kids in there, we need to go in”: Officers in Uvalde were ready with guns, shields and tools — but not clear orders

The Texas Tribune has reviewed law enforcement transcripts and footage that federal and state investigators are examining after the May 24 tragedy.

The Texas Tribune

Officers arrived with rifles, ballistic shield at Uvalde school 19 minutes after gunman

DALLAS — Police officers were in the hallway and armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield within 19 minutes after a gunman arrived at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, a new development that raises more questions and criticism about law enforcement’s response to the massacre, according to a…

Tribune News Service

Senators Want To Control Google Search Results About Abortion

Plus: Uvalde cops didn't check classroom door, Texas GOP slides further to the right, telemedicine deregulation in peril, and more...

Reason

Texas lawmaker says Uvalde police agree to cooperate with probe

In recent weeks, law enforcement officials have stopped providing new updates about the shooting, raising concern.

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Chairman: Voluntary testimony from Uvalde police uncertain

The chairman of a special state House committee taking testimony on the Uvalde school shooting says it's uncertain whether city police officials would testify voluntarily to the committee

The Independent UK

Abbott seeks to shield Uvalde records

Texas public safety officials cite the "dead suspect loophole" to prevent records from being released

Salon

A legal loophole may block access to Texas shooting records

A law barring information from being released in crimes for which no one has been convicted comes under focus in the Uvalde school shootings.

WEKU

Texas shooting records could be blocked by legal loophole

Some Texas lawmakers and advocates are concerned that law enforcement authorities will use a legal loophole to block the release of further information related to the mass shooting at an elementary school

The Independent UK

Experts stunned by Uvalde police defense

In interview, he says he hadn’t spoken out sooner because he didn’t want to compound his hometown’s grief

Salon

Off-duty deputy who responded to Uvalde shooting is fired following arrest for public intoxication

The deputy was sent from Brazoria County to Uvalde as part of a team of eight patrol deputies and two dispatchers

The Independent UK

Uvalde school police chief defends delay in entering classroom

Pete Arredondo said in an interview that he did not consider himself in charge of the scene of the school shooting.

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The Independent UK

Uvalde police chief Pete Arredondo breaks cover to defend himself as a hero

Arredondo says in his first extensive interview he didn’t consider himself the incident commander as the massacre unfolded

Salon

Uvalde hiring more school police

Texas town's response to botched police school shooting response? Throw more cops at it

The Guardian - US

Texas school police chief says he didn’t think he was in charge during shooting

Pete Arredondo says he intentionally left behind radios before entering school, as two more funerals are held for victims of the attack

Asharq Al-Awsat

Uvalde School Police Chief Defends Texas Shooting Response

The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in US history said in his first extensive comments, published Thursday, that he did not consider himself the person in charge as the massacre unfolded and assumed someone else had taken control of the…

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Axios

Uvalde schools police chief breaks silence on shooting response after fierce criticism

Pete Arredondo told the Texas Tribune he didn't think he was the incident commander.

The Independent UK

Report: Police knew of injured at Texas school while waiting

Police waited for protective equipment as they delayed entering the Texas elementary school where a gunman inside killed 19 children and two teachers

The Independent UK

Over a dozen Uvalde victims were still alive in 80 minute period before police entered school

New details about police delay revealed in report on Thursday

The Independent UK

Uvalde superintendent says district to hire more police

The superintendent of the Texas school district where 19 students and two teachers were fatally shot says the district will hire more police officers in the fall but released no information about the investigation

The Independent UK

School police chief a no-show at Uvalde City Council meeting

The school district police chief criticized for waiting too long before ordering law enforcement to confront and kill the gunman during a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school did not appear at a Uvalde City Council meeting, despite being newly elected to the panel

Tribune News Service

John M. Crisp: Chief Arredondo’s failure wasn’t the only one in Uvalde

Uvalde school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo is hard pressed to find much sympathy or support anywhere these days.

Axios

Uvalde's Robb Elementary will become "something other" than school: Superintendent

"We have plans for it to become something other than a school site."

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