The Uvalde Texas School Police Chief Is A Coward

There’s no excuse, none

I watched the News in anger, like most people around the world. I couldn’t believe that the Uvalde Sheriff and his deputies stood by while an evil punk slaughtered innocent children. The Sheriff’s excuses rang hollow.

Do the officers that stood by in the school’s hallways while the punk committed mass-murder sleep well at night? I can’t wrap my head around it. Since Columbine, law enforcement officers have been trained to engage the shooter, if they are outnumbered, or not.

You don’t stand by and let someone massacre children

That is the correct course of action. When children’s lives are at stake. Every officer with a gun has to storm the building and put the perpetrator down as soon as possible.

The buck stops with Chief Pete Arredondo. He could have taken decisive action and been a hero, but instead, he had his officers stand by. One lame excuse given was that they were waiting for a key.

You would think that someone would have tested the doors, if they would have checked them, they would have discovered one was unlocked. The response was a total failure. The chief should be fired and prosecuted.

I have never had children, but I have nieces and nephews, and I can’t imagine losing them because of a psycho, or worse yet, a coward of a police chief. Where was his sense of duty? Does he have children of his own? His officers even prevented another officer from going in to rescue his child.

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

I can’t understand the total lack of a sense of duty. I was a security officer for many years. For six years, I had the privilege of working for Sheriff’s deputies when I was a security guard at the largest criminal court complex in Pinellas County Florida.

Those Deputies were the finest people I ever worked for. I know that every one of them would lay down their lives to protect a citizen, and especially a child. I feel sorry for the officers in Uvalde that obeyed orders. They will have to live with the consequences of their inaction.

They will be remembered for the wrong reasons

For me, it’s about the legacy you leave. Do you want to be remembered as a brave person, someone who would lay down their lives to protect the innocent, or do you want your actions used as a case study in every law enforcement training guide in the world, of what not to do?

The whole thing makes me angry and sad

The school was surrounded by heavily armed officers, but they stood by while children died. The people responsible need to be held accountable. On the outside, looking in, it seems that every decision made that day was the wrong decision.

Someone needs to be held accountable.

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/27/1101812648/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-experts-police-tactics