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   CNN - The Uvalde, Texas, City Council on Tuesday accepted the resignation   
   of Councilman Pedro “Pete” Arredondo.   
      
   Arredondo, who is the Uvalde school district police chief, said in his   
   resignation letter earlier this month he was stepping down from the city   
   council position to “minimize further distractions.”   
      
   “The Mayor, the City Council, and the City Staff must continue to move   
   forward to unite our community, once again,” Arredondo said. In response,   
   the city said his resignation was the “right thing to do.”   
      
   Arredondo’s attorney did not respond to CNN’s previous request for comment   
   following his resignation letter.   
      
   The city council’s move came the same day the Austin American-Statesman   
   newspaper published edited portions of surveillance video from the day of   
   the shooting. One edited video shows the gunman walking down the hallway   
   with a long rifle. The recording also shows officers approaching the   
   classroom, but then retreating down the hallway and taking cover when   
   gunfire is heard. Authorities do not directly confront the gunman until   
   more than an hour later.   
      
   The district police chief was previously identified by state authorities   
   as the on-scene commander during the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary   
   School. His role in the failed police response to the shooting – in which   
   19 students and two teachers were killed – has come under intense public   
   scrutiny and criticism. Last month, he was placed on leave by the Uvalde   
   Consolidated Independent School District.   
      
   “Because of the lack of clarity that remains and the unknown timing of   
   when I will receive the results of the investigations, I have made the   
   decision to place Chief Arredondo on administrative leave effective on   
   this date,” Superintendent Hal Harrell wrote in the June announcement to   
   the media.   
      
   In a hearing before the Texas Senate last month, Texas Department of   
   Public Safety director Col. Steven McCraw called the law enforcement   
   response to the attack an “abject failure” and placed the blame on   
   Arredondo.   
      
   “Three minutes after the subject entered the West building, there was a   
   sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate,   
   distract and neutralize the subject,” McCraw said at the time. “The only   
   thing stopping the hallway of dedicated officers from entering rooms 111   
   and 112 was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of   
   officers before the lives of children.”   
      
   Arredondo told the Texas Tribune in June he did not consider himself the   
   incident commander and assumed that another official had taken control of   
   the larger response.   
      
   A new assessment of the law enforcement response published earlier this   
   month that highlighted key issues and mistakes with the law enforcement   
   response noted a lack of effective command during the incident.   
      
   Arredondo had been elected to city council on May 7, just weeks before the   
   school shooting. He was sworn in privately, without advance notice to the   
   media, several days after the attack.   
      
   In Tuesday’s city council meeting, there was applause heard from off-   
   camera audience members after city leaders passed the motion to accept   
   Arredondo’s resignation.   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/12/us/uvalde-city-council-arredondo-   
   resignation/index.html   
      
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