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Hard to believe,\u00a0 some of you may have missed the investigation report on the Uvalde shooting. Harder still to believe that this new report says the cops basically didn’t do anything wrong.<\/p>\n
Nearly 400 law enforcement agents who were at the scene of the attack, including Uvalde police officers, waited more than an hour after the shooting began to confront the gunman.<\/p>\n
A critical incident report by the Department of Justice in January found \u201ccascading failures\u201d in law enforcement\u2019s handling of the massacre. The report specifically mentioned Uvalde Police Lt. Mariano Pargas, who was the acting police chief that day in Rodriguez’s absence.<\/p>\n
According to the almost 600-page DOJ report, nearly an hour after the shooter entered the school, Pargas \u201ccontinued to provide no direction, command or control to personnel.\u201d\u00a0 AP<\/a><\/p>\n
The report acknowledged wide failures by police during the 2022 attack and reiterated rippling missteps that the Justice Department<\/span> and state lawmakers have previously laid bare. Nearly 400 law enforcement agents, including Uvalde Police Department officers, rushed to the scene of the shooting but waited more than an hour<\/span> to confront a teenage gunman armed with an AR-style rifle.<\/p>\n
But an investigator hired by Uvalde officials found that the city\u2019s officers did not violate policies, and in some cases, praised their actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history. The presentation prompted an eruption of anger among some of the victims\u2019 family members, who also scolded the investigator for leaving the room before they had a chance to address him.\u00a0 AP II<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
400 cops who did nothing, ‘cascading failures’, and now the chief, Daniel Rodriguez (who was actually vacationing at the time, but was in charge of training many of those cops), has resigned.<\/p>\n
During a public comment period at the City Council meeting last week in Uvalde, some speakers questioned why Rodriguez had allowed officers who had waited so long to act to remain on the force.<\/p>\n
At least five officers who were on the scene have lost their jobs, including two Department of Public Safety officers and Pete Arredondo, the former school police chief who was the on-site commander. No officers have faced criminal charges.\u00a0 AP<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
DOJ says there were issues. 400 cops spent an idle hour allowing how many kids to die – and no one did anything wrong?<\/p>\n
Jesse Prado is a retired Austin police investigator who wrote the report. Maybe someone can pull up the report and find extenuating circumstances? \u00a0 If nobody DID violate policies – might I suggest a policy rewrite is in order?<\/p>\n
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