The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District board kept parents in the dark after going into a closed session during its first meeting since the May 24 tragedy.
— but took zero action against the embattled police chief who led cops’ botched response.
“We want answers to where the security is going to take place,” Angela Turner, a Uvalde parent who lost her niece in the shooting,Superintendent Hal Harrell told parents at the meeting that students would not be returning to the school — but then shut down the meeting and went into a long closed-door session without ever addressing the district’s police chief Pete Arredondo, who made the fateful decision to not breach the classroom door where gunman Salvador Ramos was holed up with two...
Superintendent Hal Harrell told parents at the meeting that students would not be returning to Robb Elementary.Outrage has grown over cops’ response to the mass shooting as it was revealed Arredondo, who was in command at the scene,frightened students called 911Arredondo, who was elected to a seat on the city council earlier this year, was secretly sworn into office last week after a council meeting was canceled.
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