Uvalde Commander Says He Didn’t Know He Was in Charge
Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief, Pete Arredondo, made the following statement regarding the Uvalde school mass shooting:
Arredondo told the Texas Tribune’s James Barragan and Zach Despart that he dropped his police and campus radios outside the school seconds after arriving at the northeast entrance of Robb Elementary, stating that he believed the tools would slow him down while responding to the shooter.[…]
The Tribune’s report includes claims from the police chief that he had no idea he was in charge of the police response inside the school.
There are only a couple of reasons the chief of police wouldn’t know he was in charge of the police response to a mass shooting. None involve honesty or competence.