Page 39 - May 24th News Today

Take a listen to what she said. >> im here today to make a statement, if a law enforcements job is to protect and serve, why didnt they protect and serve my friends and teachers on may 24th? i have messages for pete arredondo and all the law enforcement that were there that day. turn in your badge and step down! you dont deserve to wear one! >> reporter: this is really how so many of the kids feel. you can talk to them. ive spent time with many of the kids, this is how they feel. they do not fee...

We are watching it. i cant imagine what that must have been like. >> reporter: laura, youve got a lot of broken families out here. i mean, they have been waiting for some accountability, any accountability, for now going on three months. and this is certainly a step in the right direction, but we have a long road to go on this issue. arradondo was simply one small aspect of what needed to happen here. what occurred on may 24th should never have happened in texas. you have to go straight to the t...

It emerged that it was 77 minutes before officers at the scene breached a door to the classroom where the massacre happened. eventually, a group of officers from the us border control moved in to kill the 18—year—old gunman. the decision to sack the police chief came at a public meeting of the school board. relatives and friends of those who died spoke of their grief and anger at the way the police responded to the shooting. im here today to make a statement. if a law enforcement�*s job is...

Public. you dont care squat about those families. if it was one of your children, heads would be rolling right now. but because its not, you dont care! >> reporter: and thats been sort of the feeling here, john, from all the family members, from the community members, but finally their demands for accountability, they have seen some of that by the firing of pete arredondo, but they say theyre not going to stop here. they want more law enforcement officials to be fired, they want some of the scho...

School district police chief, pete arredondo, who allowed over an hour to pass in robb elementary school in uvalde, before police opened the door of a classroom and killed a mass murderer who had killed 19 children and two teachers. >> i have messages for pete arredondo and other law enforcement there that day. turning your badge and step down you dont deserve to wear one! [applause] >> chief arredondo and his lawyers did not show up at the meeting tonight to present a public defense of the chie...

>> why didnt they protect my friends and my teachers on may 24th? i turn in your badge and step down, you dont deserve to wear one! >> arredondo did not attend the meeting and in a statement his attorney said that the former chief feared for his safety and called the firing a public lynching. now lets go to the southeast, which has just been hammered with rain. and is facing more storms today. heavy rains that have already washed away roads flooded entire neighborhoods, promptiprompting evacuati...

If i can invest in her health and be proactive, i think its worth it. see the benefits of fresh food at betterforthem.com tonight, the uvalde school board will meet to discuss whether to fire pete arredondo. arredondo, youll remember, faced heavy criticism for the police response to the may 24th shooting, commander on the scene. that shooting claimed the lives of 19 children and 2 of their teachers. the superintendent said earlier this month that a search for an interim school police chief has...

How are the students there supposed to go back into the classroom? >> we are no safer in uvalde nor any other school in texas that we were on may 24th. the governor has refused to call a special session to raise the age limit on 18-year-olds having access to militarized guns. like they did in florida, it took 23 days. this governor has refused to act. we cant have a special session on school hardening, he has refused to act. we are no safer today than we were on the 24th. >> texas state senator,...

Several meetings and theres been a lot of frustration among parents in that community, and if we can put up quickly the time line of events here that we have seen in the last several months. you can see right there the massacre of course, happened may 24th, exactly three months ago today on june 22nd. arredondo placed on unpaid leave. on july 2nd he resigns from the city council and still technically keeps his job. all this played out as state investigators were in july. on july 23rd, the nation...

Arredondo is under heavy criticism for the police response to the may 24th shooting at robb elementary school. a gunman killed 19 children and two of their teachers. >> cnns shimon prokupecz is in uvalde for us. what is likely to happen tonight? >> reporter: well, its expected that he is going to be fired. people ive been talking to for the last several weeks have said that since the superintendent had recommended that the school police chief be fired, it is likely that the school board will go ...