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   On Monday, the tension was palpable.   
      
   Before a special meeting of the Uvalde Consolidated Public   
   Schools Board could even begin, a protester carrying a red   
   “Prosecute Pete Arredondo” sign could be heard shouting from the   
   audience. Minutes later, Brett Cross, uncle of murdered Robb   
   fourth-grader Uziyah Garcia, stood at the podium with a question   
   for the school board about Arredondo: “Why the hell does he   
   still have a job with y’all?”   
      
   A round of applause followed.   
      
   “Are you going to fire him?” Cross continued, directing his   
   question to the district’s superintendent, Hal Harrell. “If he’s   
   not fired by noon tomorrow then I want your resignation and   
   every single one of you board members, because you all do not   
   give a damn about our children or us.”   
      
   Soon a number of parents stood at a podium and demanded various   
   things from members of the board seated on an elevated stage.   
   But, fire Pete Arredondo – the Uvalde schools police chief who   
   state and other law enforcement officials and researchers have   
   said made a series of colossal mistakes the day of the mass   
   shooting at Robb Elementary School – seemed primary among them.   
   Get rid of Arredondo, some parents insisted, or they would not   
   send their children back to Uvalde schools.   
      
   The demand, in many ways, confirmed what most around this small   
   Texas town and even the nation now know. As school district   
   police chief and a member of the city council, Pedro “Pete”   
   Moreno Arredondo was a community leader in Uvalde, Texas, a   
   respected figure. Now, it’s not even clear if he remains in   
   town. In the roughly two months since 19 children and two   
   teachers were massacred at Robb Elementary School, Arredondo   
   first failed to appear at city council meetings and then   
   ultimately resigned from the council July 1 amid public   
   pressure. And, while Arredondo was not fired by Friday, the   
   school board first agreed to meet in a special session on   
   Saturday to consider the question then canceled the meeting at   
   the request of Arredondo’s lawyer. The district said that due   
   process requires them to hold it at a later date. Arredondo   
   would, in the interim, be placed on unpaid administrative leave.   
      
   Uvalde, an overwhelmingly Latino city of just over 15,000   
   people, sits in deep South Texas, in a borderlands county that   
   went to President Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections. It’s a   
   place where baseball caps and bumper stickers proclaiming that   
   the owner “backs the blue” are not surprising. Now, that kind of   
   unquestioning support of law enforcement seems harder to come   
   by. In early July, the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response   
   Training Center (ALERRT) at Texas State University issued a   
   report, commissioned by the Texas Department of Public Safety   
   (DPS), that indicated that law enforcement in Uvalde may have   
   missed multiple opportunities to stop the violence at Robb   
   Elementary. A second report, released by an investigative   
   committee of the Texas House of Representatives this week drew,   
   in greater detail, much the same conclusion. While the 18-year-   
   old gunman pulled the trigger that forever changed the town,   
   some argue that Arredondo, the man whom multiple assessments   
   have described as having been in charge of the response that   
   day, may have played a significant role in enabling the scale of   
   the massacre.   
      
   Arredondo did not respond to repeated requests for comment for   
   this article. He did, however, issue a written statement when he   
   resigned from the Uvalde City Council, in which he acknowledged   
   that he had become a divisive figure.   
      
   “Uvalde has a rich history of loving and supporting thy neighbor   
   and we must continue to do so,” he wrote. “[A]fter much   
   consideration it is in the best interest of the community [for   
   me] to step down as a member of the City Council…to minimize   
   further distractions.”   
      
   For now, the police chief remains cloistered behind a veritable   
   shield formed by fellow officers and public officials, who say   
      
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