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The police official facing criticism for a botched law enforcement response to the deadly elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, wont be sworn into his new position as originally planned

Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo is facing criticism for preventing officers from storming Robb Elementary School to stop an 18-year-old shooter.

What happened -- we need to make sure were keeping our children safe and have a full investigation of what occurred with the police response because we did see -- i mean, what were learning is that children died during the process, during the inaction. i know police have a big job on their hands, but we need to make sure that this never happens again. >> but is there any person in particular and im thinking of the commander on the scene, and thats peter adondo, and hes the person we are told by ...

Chief Arredondo has largely remained out of the public view since last week’s shooting.

Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo is facing criticism for preventing officers from storming Robb Elementary School to stop an 18-year-old shooter.

Dually elected to the city council. there is nothing in the city charter, election code, or texas constitution that prohibits him from taking office. its still not clear when exactly that will happen. but you have the mayor saying that he will still be a member of that city council as of now. there is nothing to stop him. the mayor also making some news yesterday in the statement, saying that as he knows it, there is no investigation of this police chief. he, again, was the incident commander. h...

Pedro Pete Arredondo, 50, was supposed to be amongst several new members of the Uvaldes city council sworn in at a meeting on Tuesday after he was elected earlier this month.

UVALDE, Texas -- The blame for an excruciating delay in killing the gunman at a Texas elementary school -- even as parents outside begged police to rush in and panicked children called 911 from inside -- has been placed with the school district's homegrown police chief.

Uvalde school district police department, a small department, but that chief, pete arradondo was the incident commander at the site. state officials are pointing the finger at him for making the decision of not engaging the shooter. we learned from the mayor yesterday -- we got a statement. i want to put the statement up on screen, but the mayor saying pete arradondo was duly elected to the city council. theres nothing in the city charter, election code or texas constitution that prohibits him f...

Gotten any sort of public update as well. with respect to arradondo, we did get a press release from the mayor of uvalde, and he later sat down with a local affiliate to discuss what he says to the fact that arredondo was dually elected to the city council. and he sees nothing from the election code or anything else that would prohibit from taking the oath of office. to your knowledge, we are currently not aware of any investigation of mr. arredondo but we do know the d.o.j. is conducting an ind...