Former Uvalde school police chief arrested on criminal charges
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Pete Arredondo, the former Uvalde school district police chief who has been widely criticized for his response to the deadly 2022 school shooting, has been arrested and charged with child endangerment. NBC’s Priscilla Thompson reports for TODAY. // Editor’s note: An earlier version of this report included photos taken following the Columbine High School shooting. They have been replaced in this updated version.
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WAY OVERDUE. DISGUSTING THEY ALLOWED ALL THOSE KIDS TO DIE !
Not all, no. Many of those kids died before the police arrived.
@@Lorrddthey mean the all after they arrived. Doesn't take a rocket science to understand that.
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You're paid to do a job. If you were a fire fighter, and you just decided you were afraid to go into a burning building to save people because you didn't want to risk your life even though that's what you signed up for and just watch people die. Then that is exactly the same thing that happened here. It's outrageous that they can get away with this. Every person who went to that school and did nothing needs to be held accountable. Those kids died because all the cops were too cowardly to go inside and engage in the shooter. This is ridiculous, any other country would put them in jail, in our country people just stay silent and try to forget about it.
The teacher and administration should too. They left the door unlocked and the mf just walked right in!!! State has protocol and procedure that they ignored and failed to do!! If the door was locked 100 percent of the kids would have survived. If the cops entered 1 minute after he entered there would still be dead kids. Administration is the first deadly mistake they need to be charged as well!!!
Classic case of re-direction. Your anger is understandable, but these kids died because a deranged gunman went into the classroom and shot them - not the police. In the end, the police actually ended the threat.
Exactly. That’s why the Parkland resource officer ruling was ridiculous.
@@bfreeman2121you know what could have saved a bunch of those children though? Quicker acting cops
@@bfreeman2121huhhhh? Yes the gunman did that but more deaths could of been prevented if they did something sooner
He’s a coward !! Actions have consequences
Or in this case, inactions have consequences.
No, he is nothing but a traitor.
Yea consequence is all those kids gone. Should have never ever happened. This guy is really pathetic and he was police chief!
or lack there of
True, but not CRMINAL consequences in this case. The law simply doesn't support it, and trust me, you don't want it to.
No one gonna mention the brave cops that aggressively restrained the unarmed parents that tried to force their way in?
Some parents who publicly spoke out against them were then targeted, harassed, and threatened, adding insult to injury.
@@donkey346 Surprised, this is the stuff I’ve learnt to expect
The school became an active crime scene. You can go to jail for obstruction or inter-fearing with Police work.
@@Daywalker_27 And had they not been restrained and killed by the gunman, guess what you'd be saying...
@@bfreeman2121 At least on the parents part their was some attempt to rescue those poor children?
Are all the officers who were there being charged for just standing by as well?
Yes
For what crime exactly?? We don't prosecute people in this country just because we find that actions abhorrent.
Cowards…I wonder how many times those cowards abused their authority during the course of their careers whenever they came across unarmed citizens and they felt like bullying them and playing the role the way cops like to do.
So as a nurse, I can stand back and wait to see what the patient does on their own before I start CPR? I can start when I’m ready?
Exactly, you cant preform CPR while someone has an open GSW thats still bleeding.
Those officers who was inside the school even so they sworn to protect and serve should be charged and held responsible. All of them during that event are nothing but traitors and abominations.
False, only the commanding officers are traitors
Police are not obligated to protect lives, only enforce the law, you dolt. You wouldn’t risk your life on random kids, why should a stranger?
@@AccipiterAtricapillus Why wouldn't that be?
It's about time!! Now convict the entire Uvalde PD!!
We got a special one here 💀
You cant do that. And that wouldnt work.
no
There were officers who were physically restrained by their comrades when they tried to respond. And at least one who came in on his day off and attempted to save lives. As disgusting as this incident was we cannot hold the entire precinct responsible for the inaction of their comrades
And everyone in that city will be in danger💀
The right decision
All of they should be charged.
Shame on them
It’s a good start, but there are 400 more officers that should be arrested as well for standing by for 70 minutes while a massacre was taking place. Every officer who prevented parents from retrieving their kids should be arrested. Yet they will all cry officer safety and qualified immunity. This is the kind of tragedy that will keep happening as long as schools are gun free zones and easy targets for criminals. These teachers should have all been armed. It’s a lesson to parents that the government can’t and won’t protect children.
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Are you serious?
What do you think would have happened if the police let MORE innocent people rush a building that was under an active shooter warning? 😂
You play too many video games, bud.
@@76ersALLDAY It is TX, so many parents are armed veterans, they know how to get things done, and they had the motivation to save children. But you don't like it, right? So, your "solution" is that the police do not let anybody in, but stand still inside mere feet from the scene for an hour and do nothing to stop this tragedy? So if we call things as they are, the police just turned into accomplices to the shooter. So, that's your proposal. "To stand still, to keep parents away (to prevent them from saving children), and to let the perpetrator continue to complete the massacre." Are YOU serious? Which side are you on, mate?
@@AlvesHeim these people just want money from lawsuit settlements.
Why is the solution always more guns. Our species feels like it has a collective iq of 10.
The hypocrites arresting the hypocrite
I'm actually surprised that qualified immunity didn't save him.
Charging them is a long way before a judge or appellate judge rules on that.
Nauh bro all the police officers who were in the school and security guards should all be prosecuted only one person is being prosecuted
Not a single police officer that day decided to break their shackles and go against the chefs orders to just go and try to save them..
This is what I don't understand, abortions is illegal but where are the checks and balances to prevent mass shootings and school shootings like this from happening? You can't be pro life and pro gun it doesn't work that way.
I totally agree but it’s more about control and power. They’re not pro life really. Very sad that our country is going backwards.
That works the other way too... you have no problem with abortion but school shootings is where you draw the line??...
Guns? Knives obortionists is purposely done on innocence
Abortions Illegal???? Please inform yourself
Tell me, please, what 82,000,000 law-abiding armed Americans have to do with 15 shootings (FIFTEEN ONLY, according to the OFFICIAL statistics of the FBI)???
About time coward face justice
Imagine standing around while you listen to children dying and then stopping the parents trying to rescue their babies. All the police who stood by should get in trouble. 400 against 1 man but they’re too scared to go in and do their jobs
Coward should get a life sentence.
Take away his credentials and never allow him to own a gun or a badge
They're all cowwords not officers ok
It's so sad 😢!
Yet nothing is being done to the kids who are bullying those who commit suicide.
Keep going, don’t stop here, hold all of them accountable!
They failed those children
Like what was he doing, he was supposed to save the children, not just being some lazy lunatics who are waiting
Over 400 cowards stood feet away as the innocent victims died. These officers threw down, maced, tased and arrested the parents begging for help to save their children. From the mouth of an officer I’d have gone in if it were my kid! As a Texan with grandchildren in public schools we will not forget and are forever changed. From our governor and Lt governor offering only thoughts and prayers to our state reps who chose to not show up at scheduled meetings to hear the parents ( ted Cruz) collected hundreds of thousands in campaign contributions from pro gun orgs. Please folks remember Uvalde and all the other innocent lives lost. If the representatives in office refuse to protect our children let’s vote in ones that will. Our future depends on it!!!
2 years already? Wow, time sure does fly by.
about da** time!!
Finally someone is being held accountable
Uvalde is the perfect example of why “protocol is bs”. Rules and policy are garbage if they get in the way of realitt
When is Biden and Trump goin to solve this.. not a real man of their word..
Both of them failed to protect kids
politicians are stupid
Finally they are bringing this back everyone needs to know about these cowards
Being a victim of anything doesn't necessarily mean you want money to solve the problem because you can't replace peoples lives
About f**king time this is way over due
UTTERLY DISGUSTING AND FINALLY JUSTICE IS GETTING IT’S DUE GOD REST ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL SOULS 🙏🏿
you made an oath to protect and serve and you left the children you were supposed to protect with a active shooter so YOU could get to safety….. i am just as disgusted as when it first happened
the COWARDS are bigger in texas too
two years tooooo late!!! shoulda been dealt with awhile ago.
In my opinion, incompetence is also a form of corruption
Those children were failed miserably! When is it going to be enough to force new laws so that children aren’t scared to go to school!
The police force had failed to protect our children that day.
Stupid (*regarding the cops*).
There he was mad at me I was I was walking around when my friends asked me that's not your brother The name and help you just make fun of you for many years
They should never ask me that question That question is prove it that's that question before you ask me the question I have asked me a question
2 years
The school district police chief should've never been in charge especially since that's not how the hierarchy works. All of them should be charged for failing to protect and making an incompetent person (who shouldn't have ever been in charge of anything) as defacto leader. Swat should've been in charge and should've taken over as soon as bottom of the totem pole started trying to prevent others from doing they job. I mean really the incompetent officers even prevented the one officer that was actually trying to do his job from going in and not only stop the shooter but save the kids including his own by blocking him as well as taking his weapon away 😡
I don't blame this guy at all.I play blame republicans for not passing gun laws.
Both are to blame
Hope the inmates give the kids justice.
Exactly he tells me ask him explain me why he was making fun of me but I was now around the way
Rest in peace When thats your job , you sign up for that It's.
Okay to be scared but you proceed still
70 minutes is crazy!!!
These types of comments not dying already is
whell I hope justice has been served rest in peace to the ones who didn't make it but never forgotten
Classroom had a window nobody could have shot the ps through the window
I've watched two documentaries on it, the amount of failures and incompetent people on that police force cannot be understated. Every one of them said they had proper training but yet none of them follow the training. The chief kept telling everyone to not go in there when they had over 30 people ready to go. They had kids all over in that school when they knew where the shooter was. And then when they found out there was victims and children calling them from inside the classroom. It still took him another 40 minutes for them to go in there. Never tried the door to see if it was locked when all the other doors were unlocked and yet they said they waited an hour to get a master key, when most likely the door was unlocked. These are just some of the things there are so many more
They let all those kids pass away so sad
He causd so much pain. I dunno how he was able to live with himself
Finally the authorities began charging those who were truly guilty in what happened, instead of blaming inanimate objects of the common (law-abiding) use.
It may surprise you to know that NO ONE is legally obligated to save a life - not even police officers. Their actions may have been abhorrent, but not criminal. It is an abuse of justice to charge anyone with a crime just because we find their actions distasteful.
Jail that police chief and blame MAGA. 🤦🏻♂️
Smh
hang on. school police? was this all because they weren't actually police
Don't be surprised if the charges don't stick. It's a huge stretch and they most likely won't.
Just get over it already.
None of this BS brings any one of those kids back to life.
Blame whoever you want. Doesn't change nothing
I dare you to tell someone who just lost their loved one in a preventable tragedy to “just get over it”. You must be ignorant to the concept of justice. People need to face responsibility for their actions.
@@firebenderkitty313 preventable? How? How was this preventable?
The shooter had a weapon capable of firing HUDREDS of rounds a minute. What was a fat cop with a pistol going to do?
@@firebenderkitty313then blame the shooter not the cops. The lengths people will go to in order to blame everything but the shooter and the loose laws that allow this to happen are nothing short of morons.
the good side always wins in the end
Bowling eggs boiling 2:03
I would've gone in with or without backup.
I have little to no respect for cops because of situations like this
Really? A guy who deliberately let 19 children and 2 teachers die? Gets arrested for child endangerment?
Who would of thought?
He let 20 lives end. U wear that badge for the power it allows u. Qual immunity is so unconstitutional. Then why do we have rights at all?
The whole department should have been disbanded. The former police chief shouldn't be the only one facing charges.
Sad to see so many coward cops on the streets. Don’t choose that career then hid behind your fear of potential danger. Serve and protect your community!
All 400 of them should be charged for their dereliction of duty. Poorly trained cowards all of them.
Considering that it took 2 years for charges to even happen. I can probably predict that this trial will last several years as well.
Can’t imagine what the parents went through and continue to go through. I feel for y’all man
This cop is just the fall guy. Every cop who failed that day deserves to be in jail.
failures of a police force, like always
This is good news, those chiefs should be arrested by not doing their jobs correctly!
Yes finally
We just hope and pray that it doesn't happen ever again in a elementary school.
Yeah he should be arrested
why only the chief?
Why it took so long, we will never know.
Long over due
CIA FBI GO GET XANNY AND KIAN AND THEM NOW!!!!
Cy-op
Why all the hate speech in these comments?
He made it to the wall of shame
Scary it's a fake cop.
Negligence at its finest
Only in Texas
Finally
Ok
Child endangerment? Wouldn’t that charge fit the teachers and administrators? they failed to secure the school and endangered all the kids! They did not follow state protocol or procedure and instead had the school wide open.
Where is the accountability for the school?
The state is to blame for getting rid of common sense gun restrictions. No background checks or anything that should help stop crazy people from getting guns.
He’s innocent.
Yap
Please be serious
For hesitating to save kids?
@@johnsonsharon81 for not being suicidal. But go ahead and shame him. Digging through your comment history you seem like the type.
@@red4666 how is saving kids from a school shooter is considered suicidal?
He should call in military to go in the school to safe the kids
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