Before he was suspended last fall, the school district’s interim police chief told...
Body cam video shows Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo speaking on the phone during the May 24 standoff with a classroom shooter. “Just so you understand there’s some injuries in there,” Arredondo said at 12:43 p.m. “What we did is clear off the rest of the building, so we wouldn’t have any more than what’s in there, obviously.
District officials were distracted that week. Those dates coincided with a purge of administrators — including the interim police chief, Lt. Mike Hernandez, who was put on administrative leave on Oct. 7 — during an 11-day campout of protesting parents in the district’s office parking lot. Texas police officers who leave an agency are assigned one of three discharge designations: honorable, general or dishonorable. Many who receive general or dishonorable discharges successfully appeal, effectively obscuring their background.
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