Uvalde, Texas, school district suspends its entire police department
The entire Uvalde, Texas, school district police department has been suspended, the district announced Friday, citing "additional concerns."www.foxnews.com
Exclusive: New audio of phone call shows for the first time that a senior Uvalde officer was told children needed to be rescued from inside a classroom | CNN
Uvalde's acting police chief knew there were "eight to nine" children alive and needing rescue from a shooter in the classrooms at Robb Elementary but failed to organize help, new audio of a phone call and CNN analysis of newly obtained video shows.www.cnn.com
I can only guess they came to an agreement with the City of Uvalde, or the Constables to provide LE then for the schools? Suspending the whole PD seems short sighted if they didn't.
Too bad it isn’t a situation where, if proven to be true, he could be stripped of retirement pay.Uvalde Police Lt acting as Chief on May 24 retired in lieu of termination hearing this week.
Lt. Mariano Pargas, who was the acting police chief on the day of the mass school shooting in Uvalde, stepped down from the Uvalde Police Department on Thursday, just days before city leaders were to decide his fate.
Acting Uvalde police chief during Robb Elementary shooting resigns
Lt. Mariano Pargas was one of the nearly 400 law enforcement officers who responded to the shooting at Robb Elementary on May 24.www.texastribune.org
If note, Pargas was re-elected to his seat as a Uvalde County Commissioner.
In previously unreleased interviews, police who responded to the Robb Elementary shooting told investigators they were cowed by the shooter’s military-style rifle. This drove their decision to wait for a Border Patrol SWAT team to engage him, which took more than an hour.