TX - Uvalde; Robb Elementary, 19 children and 3 adults killed, shooter dead, 24 MAY 2022 #3

[WingsOverTX]

Unbelievable.

And very unwise. They will never get satisfaction because NOTHING - money, legal action, apologies - can mitigate what has been lost.

The attempts to help by the state & fundraising have fallen short of expectations. I do feel that can be worked out if a sincere effort is made. But money doesn't replace a life lost.

The media accounts continue to express the "nothing has been done" narrative by activists, families & lawyers. This is not true IMO. The problem? None of these murdered children & teachers can be restored to life.

Grief for these children hangs over everything in Uvalde. Most have to be sending their surviving children back into the same school system now. How can they have any normalcy when trust is so broken?

Has any lawsuit of this type against gun manufacturers ever been successful? I don't know for sure but likely not.

The failures that led to SR's crime being "successful" require forward-thinking action.

Twenty years of complicated & unresolved grief with little legal satisfaction is the likely outcome of this class action. And still, not a single life of the dead will be restored. And none of the victims will ever be made whole. It appears to me that the families of victims who choose to stay in Uvalde are not going to heal for at least a generation or two.

I would not want to endure that. I would want to walk through my grief process someplace where I have the possibility of incorporating some kind of hope into my life.

MOO

 

[Seattle1]

Civil rights attorney to file $27 billion lawsuit for Uvalde school shooting victims

Hoping to create accountability and justice, San Francisco Civil Rights attorney Charles Bonner, is working to find someone accountable from the May 24 shooting.

www.cbsnews.com

$27 billion class action lawsuit announced for Uvalde victims and survivors

A California-based civil rights attorney announced a massive $27 billion class action lawsuit on behalf of all of those who were impacted by the Robb Elementary shooting.

www.ksat.com

$27 billion class action lawsuit announced for Uvalde victims and survivors: Report

A $27 billion class action lawsuit has been announced on the behalf of several Uvalde families impacted by the Robb Elementary School mass shooting, according to KSAT News.

www.click2houston.com

 

[Seattle1]

Leigh Waldman
@LeighWaldman


Tonight on the #NightBeat a $27B class action lawsuit announced on behalf of everyone effected by the Robb Elementary shooting. Attorney Charles Bonner is the lead filing attorney. He says the victims, survivors and their families had their constitutional right to life violated




4:02 PM · Aug 21, 2022

 

[sds71]

Pete Arredondo just put out a 17-page(!) statement ahead of tonight's school board meeting, which he says he will not attend.

08.24.2022 Arredondo Press Release - Name Clearing Hearing | PDF | Police | Grief

08.24.2022 Arredondo Press Release - Name Clearing Hearing

www.scribd.com

 

[BeckyF]

School board will discuss whether to fire police chief.

Pete Arredondo won't attend school board meeting where his fate as Uvalde school police chief may be decided

The school board in Uvalde, Texas, is expected to discuss whether to fire school Police Chief Pete Arredondo at a meeting Wednesday evening, three months after a shooter at Robb Elementary took the lives of 19 children and two teachers.

www.google.com

 

[drama_farmer]

Pete Arredondo just put out a 17-page(!) statement ahead of tonight's school board meeting, which he says he will not attend.

08.24.2022 Arredondo Press Release - Name Clearing Hearing | PDF | Police | Grief

08.24.2022 Arredondo Press Release - Name Clearing Hearing

www.scribd.com

I'm surprised this pages-long diatribe is signed by an attorney. The tone, spelling mistakes and awkward grammar remind me of something I'd see on a Facebook post by someone trying to defend the unreasonable actions of a family member. IMO

 

[sds71]

@tplohetski


BREAKING: Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo has been fired, three months to the day since the Robb Elementary shooting. This marks the first law enforcement official to face significant action for the flawed police response when 19 children and two teachers died.

 

[Dotta]

"Uvalde shooter Salvador Ramos' body was left in morgue for almost a MONTH after local funeral homes refused to take it and was eventually cremated 83 miles from his home. "

Uvalde gunman's body left in morgue for almost a MONTH after shooting

Salvador Ramos, the gunman who shot and killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde on May 24, was rejected by local funeral homes, leaving the coroner to scramble for a solution.

www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[Dotta]

"Nobody feels safe going back': Uvalde pupils are enrolling in online classes because they are too scared to return to school for the new year - three months after shooter killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. "

Uvalde pupils enrolling in online classes because they are too scared

Pupils at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde where a gunman shot dead 19 of their classmates and two teachers have told their parents they 'don't feel safe' going back to school.

www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[BeckyF]

@tplohetski


BREAKING: Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo has been fired, three months to the day since the Robb Elementary shooting. This marks the first law enforcement official to face significant action for the flawed police response when 19 children and two teachers died.

YES!

 

[ilovewings]

YES!

Ditto!!!!!!

 

[mister happy]

YES!

Finally!

 

[BeckyF]

I wonder if Pete Arredondo will collect his pension. I have a suspicion he will but it’s just a hunch.

 

[Seattle1]

I wonder if Pete Arredondo will collect his pension. I have a suspicion he will but it’s just a hunch.

I suspect PA's pension is administered by the police union which most likely makes the pension untouchable. MOO

 

[Seattle1]

Uvalde school police chief fired 3 months after botched response to school shooting

Families of the 21 victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary had been demanding Arredondo be fired since details became clear of the law enforcement failures that day.

www.npr.org

8/24/22

After a nearly 90-minute termination hearing held behind closed doors Wednesday evening, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District's board voted unanimously to terminate Arredondo's contract effective immediately. They also found there was good cause for him not to receive pay for the time he was on unpaid administrative leave since July 19.

[..]

Arredondo was not present for Wednesday's meeting, saying he was concerned over his safety, but his attorney released a 17-page statement in response to the termination hearing.

"Chief Arredondo will not participate in his own illegal and unconstitutional public lynching and respectfully requests the Board immediately reinstate him, with all backpay and benefits and close the complaint as unfounded," read the statement.

[..]

Arredondo, a Uvalde native, was hired as the school district's police chief in 2020. Prior to that, he worked at the Webb County Sheriff's office in South Texas. The San Antonio Express News reported that Arredondo was demoted from a high-ranking position in 2014 because he had difficulty getting along with others in the department.

Despite growing calls for action following the shooting, Uvalde Superintendent Hal Harrell waited almost two months to recommend Arredondo's termination.

At a heated school board forum in July, Brett Cross, the uncle and guardian of Uziyah Garcia, even gave the board a deadline. Uziyah is one of the 19 children killed in the shooting.

[..]

Cross said he doesn't buy Arredondo not showing up to his termination hearings out of fear for his safety, saying during Wednesday's public comments that Arredondo was not present "to face the consequences to his actions."

 

[BeckyF]

I suspect PA's pension is administered by the police union which most likely makes the pension untouchable. MOO

Yeah, most likely.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I wonder why he didn't release a statement about wishing for community healing (though it clearly isn't what he cares about) and resigning. He is a complete joke of a human.

 

[Dotta]

More details

" 'Turn in your badge and step down!'

Uvalde's disgraced school police chief Pete Arredondo is FIRED in unanimous board vote. "

"At one point an unidentified girl who said she'd lost her friends and teachers roared: 'Turn in your badge and step down, you don't deserve to wear one.' "


"Over the 17 defiant pages, Arredondo asserts he is not the fumbling school police chief who a damning state investigation blamed for not taking command and wasted time by looking for keys to a likely unlocked door, but is instead a brave officer whose level-headed decisions saved the lives of other students.

He accused officials of putting the blame on him because he is a Mexican, and noted that he told administrators long before the shooting about the need for new locks and better fencing."

" Cheers finally broke out when one of the board members, Laura Perez, made the motion that 'good cause exists to terminate the noncertified contract of Pete Arredondo, effective immediately'. "

Pete Arredondo is FIRED by unanimous board vote

The Uvalde school board voted unanimously on Wednesday to fire Pete Arredondo as the school's police chief.

www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[Seattle1]

He accused officials of putting the blame on him because he is a Mexican, and noted that he told administrators long before the shooting about the need for new locks and better fencing."

^^rsbm

Seriously, PA, the former police chief who has not had one word of condolence for more than 20 Hispanic victims, or acknowledged a single error beginning with intentionally separating himself from both of his police radios, is pulling the race card in his defense?

PA is scary. MOO

 

[Dotta]

^^rsbm

Seriously, PA, the former police chief who has not had one word of condolence for more than 20 Hispanic victims, or acknowledged a single error beginning with intentionally separating himself from both of his police radios, is pulling the race card in his defense?

PA is scary. MOO

My jaw literally dropped when I read this accusation of racism.
Unbelievable!