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Remember the Texas Department of Public Safety report on the Uvalde shooting? All that law enforcement stymied by the actions of one supervisor for 77 minutes because he said they were dealing with a “barricaded subject” instead of an active hostage taker, and the Uvalde School Police head, Pete Arrredondo was the man to blame.<\/p>\n
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw called authorities\u2019 response an \u201cabject failure,\u201d placing blame at the feet of the on-scene commander, who state authorities have identified as school district police chief Pedro \u201cPete\u201d Arredondo.\u00a0 CNN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, the New York Times (“All the News That Fits, We Print” or something similar) says differently. Arrenado didn’t have a radio and did not name himself as an on-scene commander – as a matter of fact, NO ONE DID.<\/p>\n
The Times report says the visual evidence, while limited, indicates the problem was not simply Arredondo but adds that the available footage shows high-ranking officers, experienced state troopers, police academy instructors, and even federal SWAT specialists came to the same conclusions and were detoured by the same delays the former School Police Chief Arredondo has been condemned for causing.<\/p>\n
\nThe officers waited, the report found, even as at least one high-ranking official \u2014 the acting chief of the Uvalde Police Department \u2014 learned that a teacher was wounded but still alive and that a child had been calling 911 for help from inside the classrooms. The committee found that none of the officers who learned of the calls advocated for \u201cshifting to an active shooter-style response or otherwise acting more urgently to breach the classrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Officers massed on the north and south sides of the classrooms where the gunman was holed up, but they did not communicate with one another, the report found. Despite a search for a master key to the classrooms by the school police chief, Pete Arredondo, and others, no one called the principal, who had one. The usefulness of a specialized tool to pry open the door was tested but then rejected as too dangerous to officers.<\/p>\n
The chief of the Uvalde police department called from his vacation to tell the acting chief, Lieutenant Pargas, to set up a command post. Mr. Pargas did so, in an office at a funeral home across the street, but then left it shortly thereafter. \u201cThis did not result in the establishment of an effective command post,\u201d the report found.<\/p>\n
The report found that of the four ballistics shields brought to the scene, \u201conly the last shield, furnished by the U.S. Marshals, was rifle-rated.\u201d It arrived at 12:21 p.m. \u2014 nearly 50 minutes after the gunman began shooting.<\/p>\n
The report found the \u201cegregious poor decision making\u201d went beyond Mr. Arredondo and included the dozens of well-armed officers from Mr. McCraw\u2019s own agency, the Department of Public Safety, as well as the scores from the U.S. Border Patrol. Spokesmen for both agencies did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
While many of the officers interviewed by the committee said that they considered Mr. Arredondo to be the incident commander, others said they were not aware of who was in charge, the report said, creating a chaotic vacuum of leadership that the larger state and federal agencies could have moved to fill but did not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n