Uvalde schools suspend entire police force after outrage

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Uvalde families have said students in the district are not safe so long as officers who waited so long to confront and kill the gunman remain on the job. 9News

The extraordinary move follows the revelation that the district hired a former state trooper who was among hundreds of officers who rushed to the scene of the May 24 shooting.

Brett Cross, the uncle of 10-year-old victim Uziyah Garcia, had been protesting outside the Uvalde school administration building for the past two weeks, demanding accountability over officers allowing a gunman with an AR-15-style rifle to remain in a fourth-grade classroom for more than 70 minutes. The fallout is the first in Uvalde’s school police force since the district fired former police Chief Pete Arredondo in August. He remains the only officer to have been fired from his job following one of the deadliest classroom attacks in U.S. history.

“We are confident that staff and student safety will not be compromised during this transition,” the district said in a statement.Teacher killed in Texas massacre farewelled alongside husbandThe former DPS trooper who was hired by the district was among at least seven troopers later placed under internal investigation for her actions at Robb Elementary.

 

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Cowards.

Blame law enforcement when the perpetrator is vaguely mentioned or his family.

There is so much more to this story than is being told. The shooter used a $3k Daniel’s military style rifle. How does a part time donut shop worker afford a $3k rifle with specific, expensive ammo ? most use an AR-15 off the rack for $300 and whatever ammo is in the shop !

Does this do anything. It's tragic.

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