quote lost momentum because they didn t return fire with exact fire. they had that opportunity. instead, they retreated and then there is the portion about the incident command. we have heard a lot from dekz dps pointing the finger at the school police chief pete arradondo, calling him the incident commander, something he denied. according to this report that was part of the problem, the lack of incident command. i am going to quote from the report. it says, quote, it does not appear that effective incident command was established during this event. the lack of effective command likely impaired both the stop, the killing and the stop the dying parts of this response. now, we of course know that 21 people died, including 19 children and two teachers. erica and jim, i can t help but think of that phrase that we hear so much, all it takes is a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. in this case, there was a lot of
if he would have stopped, or would have gotten out of his car, according to the authors of this report, this officer could have seen the suspect, could have stopped the suspect. further, more fail oars. according to this report, once officers did enter the school, they lost momentum, is how this report states it. in essence, they explain that they didn t return fire with qualifier, because these officers were also armed with rifles. so this report says they lost momentum. it took them more than an hour to then go back into the school and stop the threat b. the incident command. this is important because until now the lead investigative agency, the texas dps has been pointing the finger at pete arradondo, the school police chief. boris, what this what this report says is that there was a lack of incident command. so that will be interesting,
swayed that council. i m the only one that quoted their by-laws to them. so it was a very impactful meeting. the council was put on the spot. you know, kim, we found out yesterday that the classroom door that we were intentionally told was locked, that it wasn t locked. it was unlocked the entire time. i know how close-knit the uvalde community is. i saw that first-hand when i was there. you talked about how people don t want to hear from arradondo, but how are they handling this particular news about the door? well, it s just outrage. really i think there was a sense of, hey, a week ago maybe a week and a half ago, did he even try the door? you know, there was like no evidence that anybody went over and actually tried the door.
district police chief, pete arradondo, placed on administrative leave effective immediately, that s in the wake of the school shooting in uvalde that left 19 children and two of their teachers dead and more and more questions about the police response. arradondo has remained mostly silent since the day of the shooting, and that s where my next guest, kim hammond comes in. i had spoken with her before. she lives two doors down from robb elementary. and at a city council meeting last night the council was about to vote whether to grant arradondo a leave of absence when kim spoke up to speak. listen to what she said. your agenda number 6 is a decision on whether or not to give him a leave of absence. why the hell would you? let him miss. three meetings. he s my councilman. let him miss three. don t waste anymore time on him, but you can do something right now tonight and not table whether you re going to decide to give him that leave of absence.
dumb luck, but i ve been thinking of it for several days. one of the parents had enlightened me to the fact that the council was going to make a decision on whether to grant him leave. and in my brain i m like why would they want to give him leave unless they re hiding something. so thought on it for a few days, did not plan on speaking last night, and shortly before we left to go over to the civic center to the meeting i thought there s got to be a way. so i opened up their city charter and went down. and he s missed a couple, i thought one for sure. if he misses tonight there s got to be something, and i found it in the chart. you think arradondo, you think he s going to show up to the city council meetings and not answer any questions? i doubt it. i really can t speak for him.