Uvalde City Council to investigate every city cop who responded to the school massacre

Uvalde, Texas -- The Uvalde City Council said Tuesday that every city cop who responded to the Robb Elementary School massacre on May 24 will be fully investigated. Some people believe the council is looking to discover even one set of balls among the police there as none were obvious while the shooter was in a classroom killing 19 children and two teachers.

“This investigation is looking at every single officer and what his actions, what he did, what our policy says, and basically, we’re gonna get a report on everybody,” council member Ernest “Chip” King III said during a council meeting, according to CNN. “We will act on it, and we promise that to you,” King added.

According to the Washington Examiner, Austin, Texas police detective Jesse Prado will be the lead investigator appointed by the council. He will be the lead on interviewing 25 officers from Uvalde's 39-member police department. [I used 'department' as the word 'force' is not appropriate to use in this case.]

“He’s gonna be conducting the investigation and we’re gonna let the investigation go, see what he determines, but everybody that’s Uvalde PD that was there will be held accountable for their actions,” King said, according to CNN, aka the Compromised News Network.

The investigation is being performed after the public across the nation were rightfully outraged over Uvalde's law enforcement personnel failing to confront the shooter as he was killing people. Perhaps the most enraging piece of video was that of an officer nonchalantly sanitizing his hands while the shooting was taking place and his fellow officers stayed safely away down the hallway.

The officers waited 77 minutes prior to removing their thumbs from their butts and finally taking action and fatally shooting the gunman. The video below might be disturbing to viewers:

“We owe it to the families. We want to get it right,” Uvalde council member Everardo Zamora told CNN.

The Uvalde City Council has taken some action against some of its local authorities.

For example, Uvalde’s acting police chief [and he really was acting] at the time of the massacre, Lt. Mariano Pargas, has been suspended and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District chief of police, Pete Arredondo, is on administrative leave. The Council also suspended the school's Principal Mandy Gutierrez after an investigation found that she failed to fix a broken lock on a door to the classroom the gunman had entered.

How do these people forgive themselves?

Beyond these suspensions, and paid vacations, many family members of the victims  of the shooting who were at the meeting wanted more action to be taken, such as suspending all the city's cops who responded to the shooting and holding them accountable for their cowardice leading to their failure to do their sworn duty.

At last night’s Uvalde council meeting, Eloise Castro stood at the lectern. An elderly retired floral shop owner, she reads statements from carefully prepared notes. But if you think she’s a meek, soft-spoken old lady, you’d only be half right. She’s incisive, w/a sharp tongue. pic.twitter.com/pH0PIYn2Wm

— Sig Christenson 🏕 (@saddamscribe) July 27, 2022

Ms. Castro correctly voiced her concern that the people the Council is using to investigate the Uvalde cops are themselves Texas cops and she seems to believe they might not be as critical as outsiders would be of the lack of response the Uvalde cops showed.

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It's going to be interesting to see how the investigation pans out. The Uvalde police are a stain on the reputations of good police in this country and do not represent the vast majority. However, that isn't how the public may evaluate policing. One can only hope the investigation is meaningful.

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