A Uvalde police lieutenant, the acting chief of the city police department on the day of the shooting, has been suspended. It's the first sign of official fallout after a newly released state report found police disregarded their active-shooter training.
The House report was the first so far to criticize the inaction of state and federal law enforcement, while other reports and public accounts placed the blame squarely on Uvalde schools police Chief Pete Arredondo, for his role as incident commander, and other local police who were among the first to arrive.
Uvalde schools police Chief Pete Arredondo, one of the first to arrive at the scene, told The Texas Tribune in June that he did not consider himself the incident commander. But an active shooter plan, which Arredondo co-wrote, states the chief will “become the person in control of the efforts of all law enforcement and first responders that arrive at the scene.
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