Uvalde School Police Chief Says They'll Start Cooperating With Investigation Once 'The Families Quit Grieving'
perezhilton.comThe Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police chief is finally explaining why he and his team have suddenly stopped cooperating with the Texas Department of Public Safety’s investigation into the devastating mass shooting that took place at Robb Elementary School last month.
And his answer is just as cowardly and misguided as his response to the active shooter. As you well know by now, 19 students and two teachers were tragically killed in Uvalde, Texas after an 18-year-old man opened fire in a classroom while police officers stood outside doing nothing for “roughly an hour.” In fact, the only substantial thing they seemed to have done during that time, according to reports, is keep desperate parents from entering the building and helping their children, including handcuffing and pepper spraying them, per The Journal.
So infuriating. Related: Uvalde Cops Got A Student Killed During Shooting, Says Surviving Classmate Now, the police chief is once again seemingly failing the people of his community by not cooperating with an investigation into their slow response to the shooter. Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the on-scene incident commander at the time, suddenly stopped providing investigators with information — and now he’s explaining why.
When confronted by CNN‘s Shimon Prokupecz on Wednesday, he explained he’ll start cooperating again “once the families quit grieving.” WTF?!
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