Justice Department Statement on the Mass Shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Justice Department Statement on the Mass Shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX
The U.S. Department of Justice today released the following statement from spokesman Anthony Coley:

“At the request of Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, the U.S. Department of Justice will conduct a Critical Incident Review of the law enforcement response to the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.

“The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events. The review will be conducted with the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing.

“As with prior Justice Department after-action reviews of mass shootings and other critical incidents, this assessment will be fair, transparent, and independent. The Justice Department will publish a report with its findings at the conclusion of its review.”

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1. At the request of the mayor

Interesting. Guess he felt he had no choice.

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5. Is he the same grumpy texan who called Beto a Son of Bitch?

I think that is what he called him...been a few days since I saw the town hall meeting event.

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7. Yeh, the White Boss of 83.5% Hispanic population. Where the city cops were said to harass residents.

But the Uvalde “chief of police” might as well throw himself on a sword, or rather has already been thrown on a sword by ABBUTT and his yes-men: ABBUTT claims to be “LIVID” and “misled” and ABBUTT’s State police dude named him as being the “ONE EXCEPTION” to the plenty of officers ready to do “what needed to be done.”

This is not to say that ARREDONDO is blameless. But NOTE, that he is constantly referred to as “Chief of POLICE.” Well, it needs to be specified that he was “chief” of the *SCHOOL* police. There is a big difference from City COPS and SCHOOL police, the latter of whom are “softer” (if you will) because their job means constant contact with KIDS and entails a higher level of gentleness (if you will) and such things as “communication and outreach” (which ARREDONDO campaigned on for City Council). And the degree of “toughness” in all levels of cops varies with the size and criminality of the towns, supposedly scaling upwards in toughness from low level small towns.

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https://www.newsweek.com/uvalde-police-chief-who-made-wrong-call-shooting-joining-city-council-1711127

Uvalde Police Chief Who Made 'Wrong Call' on Shooting Joining City Council

…. Peter Arredondo, chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD), reportedly kept nearly two dozen officers from breaking into a Robb Elementary School classroom as a gunman opened fire for roughly an hour. A total of 19 children and two teachers were killed when 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered the building and fired more than 100 rounds with an assault-style weapon.

Arredondo was elected to the Uvalde City Council just three weeks before the shooting, after running on a platform of communication and outreach, NBC News reported Friday. He earned nearly 70 percent of the vote.

At least three police officers initially followed Ramos into the building within minutes, but failed to engage him. In the next half hour, as many as 19 officers piled into a school hallway, but were told by Arredondo to stand down, believing that the shooter had barricaded himself inside a classroom and that children were no longer under an active threat. ….

"It was a wrong decision. Period. There was no excuse for that," McCraw (Director TDPS) said. "There were plenty of officers to do what needed to be done, with one exception, is that the incident commander inside believed he needed more equipment and more officers to do a tactical breach at that time." ….

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9. It's "CYA."

He's hoping all the focus on his police department's fuck-ups fall on them alone, and therefore all the blame. He's hoping this keeps them from looking into him, too. Another goddamn Republican coward.

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2. I hope the instinct of self preservation is given due weight.

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3. Justice Dept. to review response to Texas school shooting

This review is needed

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The Justice Department said Sunday it will review the law enforcement response to the Texas school shooting, an unusual federal look back prompted by questions about the shifting and at times contradictory information from authorities that have enraged a community in shock and sorrow.

Department spokesman Anthony Coley said the review would be conducted in a fair, impartial and independent manner and the findings would be made public. The announcement came as President Joe Biden was visiting Uvalde, where he and first lady Jill Biden paid their respects at a memorial to the 19 students and two teachers killed at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday.

The goal of the review, which the mayor requested, is “to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and response that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” Coley said in a statement.

Handling the review is the department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. It was not immediately clear how the review would be conducted, whether law enforcement officials could be compelled to cooperate in the review and when it might be completed.

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4. KnR

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6. K&R

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8. Mayor reelection woes

I'm glad the DOJ will be conducting the investigation.

I hope it looks into the Mayor's conduct, especially after what he said to Beto. The whole world heard him call Beto a SOB and was an embarrassment. Be careful how you behave Mayor, words and actions or in your case inaction have consequences.


And don't you just love how the announcement is worded “The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events. The review will be conducted with the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing."


Notice the continuation of Enforcers presence, instead of eliminating the threat in the first place guns. Instead business as usual "best practices to help 1st responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events."

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