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As if law enforcement in Texas didn’t take a gigantic hickey for the Uvalde shooting and their, shall we say, lackadaisical? response – here we have the tale of one of Texas’ finest, a Texas Ranger. And no, I am not referring to the ill-starred Dallas junior league baseball team.<\/p>\n
The Texas Department of Public Safety sent a letter to Christopher Ryan Kindell on January 5, saying they intended to terminate him for not “conforming to department standards” during the response to the shooting, where 19 children and two teachers were killed.<\/p>\n
According to the Post, Kindell arrived at the school 30 minutes after the shooting began, and was one of the most senior officers on the scene when he arrived.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As you can expect, whether a shooter is barricaded inside a somewhat secure place or is in a place with shootable hostages\/targets demands different tactics. The former you can almost starve out, the latter demands action as soon as humanly possible.<\/p>\n
In the dismissal letter, DPS officials said Kindell “took no steps to influence the law enforcement response toward an active shooter posture” and that “constitutes a failure to perform your duty completely.”<\/p>\n
The Post went into further detail about how Kindell failed to mount an active shooter offensive. About 10 minutes after arriving on the scene, bodycam footage shows Kindell walking around, “within earshot” as a dispatcher announces that a child has called 911 from inside one of the two adjoining classrooms where the shooter had barricaded himself, the Post reported.<\/p>\n
Kindell also failed to immediately act when the shooter unleashed his final round of gunfire at 12:21 p.m. Law enforcement didn’t storm the classroom where the shooter was present until 12:50 p.m., according to the Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Kindell is described as a “senior officer” with the Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas’ equivalent to a Highway Patrol (if you are driving in Texas and see a black SUV with a white hood – that’s one of ’em.) The Rangers are an elite group subordinate to DPS. Per DPS policy, a fired officer has the ability to appeal his firing to the head of DPS.<\/p>\n
A DPS official told The Post that the dismissal letter was a “preliminary decision” and won’t be finalized until Kindell has the opportunity to meet with DPS Director Steven McCraw.<\/p>\n
Multiple sources told the local news station KXAN<\/a> last week that Kindell requested a meeting with McCraw over four months ago, but that McCraw has yet to schedule a date.<\/p>\n
Insider was unable to reach Kindell for comment on Wednesday, but a source close to the ranger said that the director has twice cancelled on him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n