Houston on August 25, : A police officer who was accused of not managing the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which killed the lives of two teachers and 19 students, has been dismissed according to reports in the media.In a meeting on Wednesday evening at a meeting on Wednesday evening, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District’s board of trustees unanimously voted to dismiss Pete Arredondo, who had been in a leave of absence since June, according to the BBC.
The meeting began and the audience in the audience yelled “coward” and students Caitlin Gonzalez, who escaped the shooting, shared that her message to Arredondo who wasn’t in the room she said: “Turn in your badge and get off the premises.”
But the lawyers for Arredondo described him as “a brave police officer” and his dismissal “an unlawful public lynching”.
They claimed that their client who was the leader of the police force that was small since 2020, didn’t believe he was in fact the one in control during the time of the attack.
Arredondo the chief of the police force of the district school is blamed for the delays of law enforcement in facing the gunman, who is 18 years old, Salvador Ramos.
Just a few days after the massacre at Robb Elementary School Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw had claimed that local police took the “wrong choice” by waiting almost an hour before entering the school’s classroom in which Ramos fired at students as well as teachers, before he was repelled by police.
In an state Senate hearing in June, McCraw said that Arredondo had “decided to put the life of officers ahead of the lives of children” and described the response as to the state’s decision as an “abject fail”.
It was the third-deadliest school shooting in the US following the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, and was the most fatal in Texas.
The US has seen at most 385 mass shootings this year, according the most recent data provided by the non-profit Gun Violence Archive.
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