The Paducah Police Department on Friday celebrated their newly promoted Assistant Chief of Police, Joe Hayes, who has been with the department nearly 20 years.
Surrounded by dozens of friends, family members, city workers, and police colleagues, Lt Manmeet Colon on Friday took the oath of office to become the city's third assistant police chief -- and the department's first-ever second-in-command of Asian descent.
following that. listen to what she told the court. >> just to be clear, what was the statement that you said about how long he was here? >> 30 to 40 minutes. >> but his phrase was, i here. >> i was here 30 to 40 minutes. >> why did you call your brother after that? >> because he is assistant chief of police and i called him. >> and that statement of alex murdaugh affected you? >> yes. >> how? >> i was nervous. >> she seemed to be suggesting that alex murdaugh was putting the pressure on her to say that he was there longer that evening, and she also testified about a blue tarp and blue rain coat that we will talk about today and whether or not that had residue on it.
i am curious as to what they mean by extreme circumstances -- do they have specifics about that type of statement? and then, who decides to deploy these robots? who subsequently is responsible for them, especially if they do any kind of wrongdoing, i.e., they shoot the wrong person? >> right. the policy was amended so that the chief of police or the assistant chief of police have to sign off on this use of robots as deadly weapons. that did not give me a lot of comfort. when the very assistant chief, who has discretion to use these, was at the hearing last week and was giving examples of when they might need this. and the examples were, number one was, in case there was a suicide bomber. so, somehow he thought it was a good idea to send a robot armed with an explosive to try to subdue a suicide bomber. that makes absolutely no sense to me. and then, the other example was
families quit grieving, we'll do that. >> pete arredondo, a 50-year-old native of uvalde began his law enforcement career nearly 30 years ago, working up from modest positions in the uvalde police department. >> i started there and worked my way up to the ranks of assistant chief of police. >> after spending nearly 16 years with the uvalde city police, he moved south to webb county, texas, where among his jobs with the sheriff's department, he worked as a jailer and then he took a job with the united independent school district police in laredo along the border with mexico. we interviewed chief ray garner, his boss there, who told us arredondo was a captain responsible for the safety of 21 schools and had at least 30 officers and 60 security guards under his command. >> he was well liked by the men and women of this department. and he was good to work with. the principals at the different campuses really liked him, and he communicated well with them.
tragedy. but we have seen that before. i am going to give people homework here. go and ask your school board and your school officials, what is the level of partnership that we have in our school between the sheriff or the police and the guidance counsellors and the principal? when i was in the fbi we held seminars for these partnerships. in many cases it was the very first time an assistant or assistant chief of police ever met each other, let alone understood how work together and assess a threat. ask those questions if you are a parent. get those answers as soon as you are back next week. >> by thank to frank and shaq for hopping on and being part of our breaking news coverage. in the next hour we will have an opportunity to speak with oakland county prosecutor karen mcdonald on the decision to