BREAKING: The mayor of Uvalde says the city’s acting police chief on the day of the school massacre has been placed on leave to determine whether he was responsible for taking command, after a new report found wide failures by law enforcement.
The nearly 80-page report was the first to criticize both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities in the South Texas town for theby heavily armed officers as a gunman fired inside a fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said an investigation would be launched to determine whether Pargas should have taken command of the scene. McLaughlin also said the city would now release all body camera footage from Uvalde police that was taken during the shooting. Investigators said it was not their job to determine whether officers should be held accountable, saying that decisions rests with each law enforcement agency. Prior to Sunday, only one of the hundreds of officers on the scene — Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief — was known to have been on leave.
No single officer has received as much scrutiny since the shooting as Arredondo, who also resigned from his newly appointed seat on the City Council after the shooting. Arredondo told the committee he treated the shooter as “barricaded subject,” according to the report, and defended never treating the scene as an active-shooter situation because he did not have visual contact with the gunman.
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