Remove Pedro "Pete" Arredondo From Police Chief Following Uvalde Shooting.

"The police chief [Pete Arredondo] who reportedly made the call not to immediately send officers into Robb Elementary School to confront [the] gunman...'Peter Arredondo, the chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, stopped at least 19 officers from breaking into the school as the gunman opened fire for at least an hour. Arredondo believed that the shooter had barricaded himself and that the children were not under an active threat, Steven McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said Friday."-source

"He should now end his career by resigning as chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department for failing to take action while children placed nearly a dozen 911 calls for help while locked in adjoining classrooms, both their teachers and 19 classmates dead or dying. Each one of those calls required more nerve and courage than the chief supposedly in charge demonstrated. Each involved dire risk undertaken with the faith that the police would immediately respond. “Please send the police now,” a child begged after placing a half dozen previous calls over 44 minutes, the first of them 33 minutes after the killer entered the classroom and more than 30 minutes after the cops pursuing him should have been ordered to enter. By stepping down today as quickly as he should have responded on Tuesday morning, Arredondo could signal to the grieving families that he is holding himself responsible for a police failure that numerous other law enforcement commanders have termed 'disgusting.' [Arredondo] had... not summoned the nerve to act when a group of Border Patrol Agents decided that they had waited long enough for the order to enter. They got a key to the classroom door and did what Arredondo should have commanded in the first minutes. More than an hour elapsed after the killer should have been neutralized."-source

Arredondo made the call to change the status of the shooter to a barricaded gunman vs active shooter upon learning the shooter entered the school, preventing officers from entering the school for almost an hour.

3 weeks prior to this incident Pete Arredondo was elected to Uvalde's City Council as the district 3 councilmen. 

Pedro "Pete" Arredondo decisions and actions show he is unfit for the position of Police Chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District and should be relieved of his position. This raises the question, should Mr.Arredondo serve in any type of management position for the public with his lack of judgement? If Mr.Arredondo is willing to risk the lives of children, what else is he willing to risk?

If you'd like to contact the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District to voice your opinion, here is the contact page on their website: https://www.ucisd.net/Page/2561

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