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Christopher Ryan Kindall was rehired by the Texas Department of Public Safety (that’s our Highway Patrol, y’all) after being let go due to the Uvalde shooting.<\/p>\n
\nKindell was suspended in October 2022 and the department had moved to terminate him in January 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have decided to alter my preliminary decision based upon a review of the completed Texas Ranger criminal investigation on the May 24, 2022 Robb Elementary School mass shooting, an internal review of the actions of Texas Department of Public Safety officers who responded to the attack, and subsequent to the review by the Uvalde Grand Jury,\u201d McCraw wrote in the letter, dated August 2 and obtained by CNN on Monday.<\/p>\n
McCraw\u2019s letter notes that according to 38th Judicial District Attorney Christina Mitchell, \u201cthe Uvalde Grand Jury reviewed all law enforcement officers who responded to the attack on Robb Elementary School, and no action was taken on officers employed by the Texas Department of Public Safety.\u201d Mitchell had requested Kindell\u2019s reinstatement, McCraw added.<\/p>\n
While victims lay wounded, it took the 376 law enforcement officers on scene 77 minutes to confront and kill the gunman from the time he entered the school through an unlocked door. More than 90 Texas DPS officers responded to the scene and were among the first to arrive.<\/p>\n
Kindell told investigators he had no discussions about options to breach the classroom, as a person in his position would have been expected to do, the sources added.<\/p>\n
He was seen speaking on the phone multiple times on footage from surveillance cameras and body cameras. Kindell was also seen in one of the school\u2019s hallways as gunfire emerged from one of the classrooms.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s still shooting,\u201d he could be heard telling someone on the phone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Nothing like quick and decisive phone calls to alleviate a lethal situation.<\/p>\n
\nFormer Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo and former school police officer Adrian Gonzales are the only law enforcement officers to be indicted on criminal charges so far.<\/p>\n
Arredondo faces 10 counts of child endangerment and known criminal negligence while Gonzales faces 29 counts of abandoning and endangering a child, according to the indictments. Arredondo pleaded not guilty last week, CNN affiliate KSAT reported. Gonzales pleaded not guilty on July 25.\u00a0 CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Guess Kindall avoids joining the national database for problem cops who have been let go. The following is from a 2021 article on the subject:<\/p>\n
\nThere is a Justice Department-funded police misconduct registry called the National Decertification Index (NDI). The NDI lists over 30,000 officer decertifications, which means states have deemed them ineligible to serve as a police officer. It does not track officers accused of misconduct.<\/p>\n
But the database is not public, so people in general don\u2019t know it exists if they\u2019re not in the law enforcement community. Even some of those in the community either don\u2019t agree with the current process of the database or simply just do not support it. There\u2019s also nothing mandating every state to contribute to it, so there are still some officers who fall through the cracks.<\/p>\n
Rhode Island, New Jersey, Hawaii, California and Georgia are the only states that don\u2019t report decertifications. (NDI Executive Director – ed.) Becar does not know the reason behind these states not reporting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s another problem with the NDI, it\u2019s voluntary; it\u2019s not mandatory,\u201d Becar said. \u201cAny state submitting now could change their mind if they change administrations or they determine it\u2019s not a priority.\u201d<\/p>\n
The difference in laws and policies between all of the states and agencies also plays a big part in reporting decertifications. In some states, an officer has to have been convicted of a crime before he or she can be decertified. In most states, though, they decertify based on the act of committing misconduct rather than a conviction, Goldman said.CNN II<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Seems to me Mr. Kindall should pursue a different career, along with a couple hundred Texas LEOs who were at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"