Breaking: School police Chief Pete Arredondo resigns from Uvalde City Council
of the response. Yet, as one of the first responding officers, those at the scene looked to him for what to do. And he told officers not to enter the classrooms, even though children and teachers were still in danger.“The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from [entering rooms] 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” McCraw said.
“The officers have weapons, the children had none,” he said. “The officers had body armor, the children had none. The officers had training, the subject had none.” Arredondo previously asked for an extended leave from the City Council, but was denied the request in a meeting held June 21., Breaking News Reporter
. Jamie Landers is a breaking news reporter at The Dallas Morning News. She is a graduate of The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, where she studied journalism and political science. Jamie previously reported for The Arizona Republic and Arizona PBS.
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