Embattled Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo has been fired after outcry over the handling of the Robb Elementary mass shooting. Arredondo had been on administrative leave after the massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead. An attorney for Arredondo said he and other responding officers “should be celebrated for the lives saved, instead of vilified for those they couldn’t reach.”
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Arrependejo
Firing? How about indictment & trial?
Any lawsuits will be on the tax payers, bs!
He should have resigned ages ago but then how would he afford all those donuts and burritos.
I’m sure he keeps his pension that earns him more than 90 percent of Uvaldi citizens.
Never debate with the public. 😄
Unless you are (kinda) anon.
Why did it take so long ? RIDICULOUS !
He should be thrown in prison
Texas, the gun worshipping capitol of the US, should of ran in guns blazing; that’s what a truly devout MAGA conservative Christian infested state would have done. Then again, they claim to be devout Christians. Hypocrisy is strong within the conservative party. Thoughts and prayers as ya’ll burn for eternity for ya’lls idolatry and heresy.
What do you want to bet the Police union worked out a deal with the Chief to take the heat and an early retirement and then maybe in a year or so go to work for a different department? All so the other 3 or 4 completely incompetent fools that dropped the ball could keep their job’s? LOVE those BLUE UNIONS! Where they blow it and you pay for it!
What TOOK SO LONG
blaim everyone but the parents that didnt raise the shooter right.
this cop should of been fired once he got to fat to preform his duties properly like many many others ! then he wouldnt of even been there to screw things up
It’s about DAM TIME. Should been sooner
He didn’t do the real job that he was supposed to do ! Save life’s!
He needs to be criminally charged and go on trial for dereliction of duty that cost the lives of innocent children.
How about the bunch of cowards cops hiding and doing NOTHING, while teachers and children were being killed? COWARDS!
The first of a whole long list of “law enforcement” cowards that need to be shown the door. You have them all on video so it shouldn’t be to hard to begin holding them accountable for their collective cowardice.
The saddest part is his officers wanted to break through and he told them not to.
This guy gets almost 3 months of paid leave while multiple agencies investigate, and he claims there was no due process? This guy shouldn’t even be be chief of mall security.
Wophpo!!
If this isn’t domestic terrorism, I don’t know what is.
Boycott the entire republican party in the upcoming midterm elections and help put a stop to this madness.
Scared huh? Lol
What about the others
Most disgusting police chief of my lifetime
The 4-star police chief for a crew of 5 officers? now that’s really having a big ego, police sergeants have more officers in their squads!
Stop crying about it on the news and show God how mad you are
If you want to see a regular person and b victorious n court , while catching the judge knowingly apart of a system that violates our rights and condoning that behavior while admitting this it’s recorded unbeknownst to these pseudo authority figures
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GzihFlkjcfI&t=84s
He doesn’t care about anyone. He cared about power and money he got from being in that position he wasn’t qualified to have. If he was a decent caring person of that community, he would have stepped down LONG time ago.
It’s not enough!
It’s said that cops are guardians, not warriors. In this case, they were neither
Those cops were and still are cowards!!
Everyone in the nation thought this was a good idea besides the chief and his attorney
About F’ing time!
Boy that took a long time.
How shameful. He failed at his job. Then he had to be fired instead of stepping down. He should go hide under a rock somewhere
Good good one coward gone. Now. 399. Cowards to go. Yes 👊
“We lost her because people didn’t do their job” NO, you lost her because a crazy mf came into the school and shot everyone” let’s stop talking about what the branch and the leaf did and get to the ROOT of the problem.
He absolutely be jailed
What took so fricken long???????????????????????????????????????
God bless Chief Arredondo.
CHIEF TEN BEERS DESERVES ANOTHER CHANCE !!
Did he get to keep his retirement and benefits?
MILLION DOLLAR BUYOUT !! CHIEF TENBEERS HAPPY !!
‘In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.’ [D J Hodges]
Why did this take so long? Why was there any debate? Why is Arredondo being let off so lightly?
okee doke. so thats it huh? nothing to see anymore. we got our man. BS ! 374 cowards, should all, at the least, be fired. him, and the other 373 pultroons. i believe that a state trooper officer, is much higher on the food chain, than this small town yocul. thats who was in charge. not fred flintstone. so keep going. and do it quickly.
What took so long?
Texas
Murder fuuu murder of my.childrens. fuu
A debate? Over this dumbledorf coward? Every person that stood by while these children were being murdered and didn’t go to them should feel the burning shame of cowardice every waking moment they still breathe. Shirts with yellow bellies on them can be distributed to the entire force along with the others that stood by waiting for orders. All while the door was unlocked and children were being shot. At least force all of the policemen to reimburse the city for the active shooter training that was given to them and wasn’t used. Ostracize every person that didn’t go to these kids, make them society pariahs as they had a choice and stood there with their thumbs in their a.. for 77 minutes. Every one of them deserted their responsibility……
If he had some shred of guilty conscience, he should already resign immediately after the incident. Yet, he’s waiting to be fired. Under that administrative leave. I’m really baffled how people like this can still walk on this Earth with no shame.
Now fire the rest of those armed cowards and we still ain’t even close to square.
He should be arrested!
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They need to fire ALL THE OFFICERS that were there
Why didn’t that fool resign months ago… He had to know he would end up fired… Why that took so long is a whole other issue.
Ineffective and/or incompetent command gets people killed. ~ Capt Obvious.
You know it’s bad when literal children call for you to be fired.
So sad. None of this will bring back those lovely children. Can’t imagine the sadness of those families and survivors. These cops showing no guilt or remorse is really disturbing and disappointing.
Is that sumbitch gonna get to keep his pension?
It’s about time, he shouldn’t be the only one fired.
Now arrest him
We live in a society where people do whatever they want, can you play the game of perception is reality and nothing is ever their fault. We need very harsh penalties for law enforcement who abandon their responsibilities.
It’s about time…I don’t know how that man sleeps at night!!!!!!!!!!!
It would be hard for the community to ever have respect for him
Way overdue. Unfortunately, there are more that need to go. Every coward wearing a badge that showed up that day needs to be fired.
Only in America 🇺🇸
That guy’s a real piece of work.
In his 17-page totally defensive ramble he NEVER EVEN ACKNOWLEDGED FAMILES, ETC.
He should be banned from the job for life.
Doors weren’t even locked. Don’t spread the police lies.
“376 Law Enforcement officers were dispatched to the scene”? For one shooter? They did infiltrate the school building. Is this some kind of inside political war which turned deadly?
why it took so long to decide firing this guy?!
Well he’s on long vacation with paid … the police system so corruption and cowardly
I been sayin’ for years that putting on a police uniform does not automatically transform these clowns into heroes.And the quote of putting their life on line every day is just media mush being served to the sheep .If up to me, I would forbid men from being cops on the ground that most men join the force for prideful reasons.They enjoy the God mentality of being above the law and forget they are police to protect and SERVE the people and not the other way around .
Fire and indict the coward!!!!🇺🇲😡
Good.
Bunch of brainless bots
This police force is shameful!
If they don’t satisfy the parents demands I’m afraid that cops will be the next Targets because this is what happens if you don’t protect the citizens the citizens won’t protect you.
Hopefully he spent his 3-month paid vacation looking for a new line of work.
he should’ve been fired as soon as they saw the videos of him doing nothing to stop a killer and save the lives of those children and teachers. he is a coward that needs to be under the jail. would those cops done the same thing if this happened at a school where their children went?
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Arredondo still has the nerve to ask for back pay and to be reinstated immediately 🤬
WOW!!! He wants his name cleared but yet doesn’t present himself in the hearing hasn’t even apologize or asked for forgiveness
FIRED!!! IT TOOK THEM LONG ENOUGH!!!!! GOOD RIDDENS!!!!!
Can’t trust police to do their job if they’re only there for the huge paycheck. They should have Robocops instead because they don’t think twice about entering an unlocked or locked door and they get no paycheck.
If the teachers were armed no dead students
Why did it take so long?
Their reactions are beyond reason. I’ve tried to see their side and wear anothers shoes. I have! I can NOT, for the life of me, see it because NOTHING in my being can be made to think, “Yeah, I hear them screaming, but I’ll wait right here.”
If only the police had stepped aside to allow responsibility armed citizens handle this, we wouldn’t be doing this right now; we wouldn’t be dealing with seemingly untrained and gutless knuckleheads being forced to resign. The shooter would’ve been handled instead of, what should’ve been good resources, waiting outside for clearance from the hall monitor.
If you can’t, or are unwilling to toe the line, just get out! There’s no shame. Just don’t put innocent people in a position where they need help, and you’re a liability. THAT is unforgivable.
Bout time
He is a coward! His Staff are cowards! You should go to jail
Fire him his bad apple 🍎 police 👮♂️ bad police really bad
376 officers, and no one would risk disobeying orders to stop one cowardly attack? Oh! I forgot! Cowardly officers arrived on the scene.
He Hispanic that’s why he panicked.
It took 3 months ??? Why is this dude or ANY LAW Enforcement ON THE GROUNDS THAT DAY THAT DAY WALKING OR TALKING??
FURTHERMORE EVERYONE IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHARGED AND ESCORTED TO THE CENTER OF TOWN FOR PROPER JUSTICE.PERIOD. AND DONE!!
The entire unit should be fired.
Letting the kids get slaughtered for 80mins. And lock up in federal prison
77 minutes. That is how long it took for police to stop the shooter AFTER the school doors were breached. Over an hour of this guy unable to make a decision. Keep in mind that during this time, gunshots could be heard, and its clear that many more children died during these precious minutes (or should I say, hours).
The chief’s lack of accountability for this situation is appalling. He called this a ‘witch-hunt’, despite the fact that everyone in this country and beyond all STRONGLY believe that he is too incompetent for his position. I wish I could say to him, “So I guess everyone else is wrong, and you’re right. We all saw what happened, but you’re the only one that REALLY saw what happened.”
Excellent for that decision.you can’t negotiate with shutters or with terrorist.they had a big professional lawn enforcement.but for follow his orders they loose Childrens life.they immediately had to open the doors.too much time for having a reaction.I’m not happy because he lose his jobs.but the law enforcement need a more professional chief of staff.you can’t negotiate with terrorist or shutter’s.
How can this turd live with himself?
What a joke …a gun with no balls shoot or be killed that’s a reallo cop .. were is the protect and serve….what’s it called now Run And Hide
That’s a new one on me. I didn’t know a company/ organization couldn’t fire for not doing job because it would be violating ones constitutional rights. Lawyer needs to go back to school.
He was trying to hold onto that paycheck for as long as he could
This guy is still trying to keep his job like why would you even want it dude?
BLUE LIVES MATTERS, THAT HOW THEY WORK FOR US. PENSIONS, RETIREMENT, AND HIGH WAGES. YOU ARE NOT EVEN THEIR RADAR. YOU ARE JUST ANOTHER CRIMINAL TO THEM.
The fact that schools like to preach “community, leadership, and accountability ” and then when it involves one of their own? *crickets*
Now let’s lock him up.