Texas college officers stated college students would by no means return to the elementary college the place 19 fourth-graders and two academics have been slaughtered final month — however took zero motion in opposition to the embattled police chief who led cops’ botched response.
The Uvalde Consolidated Impartial Faculty District board held its first assembly Friday evening because the Might 24 tragedy at Robb Elementary Faculty and largely stored dad and mom at nighttime after going right into a closed session.
“We wish solutions to the place the safety goes to happen,” Angela Turner, a Uvalde father or mother who misplaced her niece within the taking pictures, informed CNN.
“This was all a joke. I’m so disillusioned in our college district.”
Superintendent Hal Harrell informed dad and mom on the assembly that college students wouldn’t be returning to the varsity — however then shut down the assembly and went into a protracted closed-door session with out ever addressing the district’s police chief Pete Arredondo, who made the fateful choice to not breach the classroom door the place gunman Salvador Ramos was holed up with two school rooms full of youngsters.
“These individuals won’t have a job if we stand collectively and we don’t let our children go right here,” Turner informed CNN.
Outrage has grown over cops’ response to the mass taking pictures because it was revealed Arredondo, who was in command on the scene, held cops again for greater than an hour whereas Ramos killed 19 fourth-graders and two college academics.
In the meantime, frightened college students known as 911 for assist from inside the varsity and frantic dad and mom have been held again by police outdoors the varsity.
Arredondo, who was elected to a seat on the town council earlier this 12 months, was secretly sworn into workplace final week after a council assembly was canceled.
“No person’s been disciplined for this,” railed Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio) to CNN. “There’s been no repercussions in any respect for what many have described as one of many worst regulation enforcement failures in American historical past.”
“All of us, the American individuals, have seen the story and the model of the story modified 4 or 5 instances now.”
Castro, who known as on the FBI to analyze the police response final week, known as it “odd and disturbing that the varsity board didn’t take any motion to not less than put the chief on administrative depart whereas every part is sorted out.”
The congressman stated native officers aren’t cooperating with the state’s investigation — regardless of the state’s largest police union imploring its members to assist with the probe.
Final week, the Division of Justice stated it might launch an impartial probe of police actions on the request of Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin.
