Pete Arredondo, the bullet-headed Uvalde school police chief, says he never ordered a stand-down of school, city and Border Patrol cops and doesn’t know who did. The Beto supporter has lawyered up and is out of hiding for the first time since the massacre. He told the leftist Texas Tribune: “I didn’t issue any orders.”
As the highest-ranking officer at the scene, however, he would have been assumed to be in command. And instead of following protocol and moving to confront the shooter immediately, he delayed for more than an hour waiting for special tools to breach the locked classroom door. Couldn’t find a key. Didn’t know kids in the classroom were calling 911 begging for help for wounded classmates because he didn’t have his police radio with him. Didn’t anyone else have one? One wounded child bled out waiting and a teacher died of her wounds as well.
Be interesting to see if he’ll talk to anyone else, including other media not as leftist as the Tribune. But he has a lawyer now and is parsing his words carefully. Disgraceful.
Via Fox News
UPDATE: Uvalde shows once again that cops are just armed bureaucrats.
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We haven’t traveled much since 2019. So I haven’t experienced one of the new big-city barbeque joints. When I was traveling, I’d prefer small-town Lockhart, or anyplace close by. Preferred avoiding Dallas-Fort Worth and, certainly, Houston, for the godawful traffic. An old favorite from my traveling reporter days back in the 80s was a joint run by a host of black women from a nearby Methodist-Episcopal church, I believe it was. Just east of Hempstead, northwest of Houston. Nowadays we hardly ever go out but order delivered, usually from Bert’s or Terry Black’s. They didn’t make the list, but their meat is tender and juicy without sauce and that’s the ticket. I hear I’m going to get some on Father’s Day, if I behave myself.
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Mechanical engineering researchers have developed a gel material that when heated draws water from humidified air and releases it as water vapor which can be collected for drinking or agriculture purposes. Sounds like it could be the answer for people in dry areas, so long as there is at least 15 percent humidity. Neat stuff.
Via KXAN
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The massacre story keeps changing and the Uvalde cops are getting death threats. While the apparent boss of bosses, the school district “chief” of police (all three of them, reportedly), is hiding at home being guarded by the city cops. All of whom have reportedly stopped cooperating with the state’s investigation of what and why and how. Small towns are so intriguing. And we still don’t know the name of the Border Patrol guy who killed the killer. And may never.
Via Hot Air
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By the Uvalde cops, the school cops and anyone else who had a hand in waiting around until the killer did his work on nineteen kids and two teachers. In a town of only about 15,000 the coordination will be easy. Easier than Columbine or Parkland. We may never know the truth of what happened. Meanwhile, all but one Border Patrol cop are disgraced, whether they deserve it or not.
UPDATE: Even Biden doesn’t want them around for his photo op: “Despite the event being planned for a large open-space facility, administration officials cited space as a reason for the retracted invitations.” Ouch.
MORE: Uvalde city and school cops not cooperating with state investigation. What a shock.
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THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 