A special school board meeting scheduled for Saturday morning in Uvalde, Texas, to consider whether to terminate the employment of the district's police chief is canceled, the district announced Friday.
"In conformity with due process requirements, and at the request of his attorney, the meeting to consider the termination of Chief Arredondo will be held at a later date which has yet to be determined," said the written statement from the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.In the meantime, Chief Pedro"Pete" Arredondo will be on unpaid administrative leave, according to the district.
Steven McCraw has called the law enforcement response to the attack an"abject failure," adding the only thing stopping officers from entering the rooms where the gunman was in"was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children."State authorities have identified Arredondo as that commander, but he has said that did not consider himself the incident commander.
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