Documents released on Uvalde massacre show police chief did not follow training on active shooters

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Documents released on Uvalde massacre show police chief did not follow training on active shooters

The "first priority is to move in and confront the attacker," the training said.
BySasha Pezenik, Ismael Estrada, Jenny Wagnon Courts, Josh Margolin, and Peter Charalambous
August 12, 2025, 1:39 PM

Two months before a gunman killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the school district's then-police chief was required to attend a training about how to respond to an active shooter, which instructed in no uncertain terms that an "officer's first priority is to move in and confront the attacker."

When Pete Arredondo, the police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District at the time of the May 2022 shooting, was confronted with precisely the situation his training should have prepared him for, he did the opposite of what the training instructed would have saved lives, according to a newly released trove of documents from the Uvalde school district.

"Time is the number one enemy during active shooter response," a lesson plan for the training said. "The best hope that innocent victims have is that officers immediately move into action to isolate, distract, or neutralize the threat, even if that means one officer acting alone."

More than three years after the shooting and the training designed to prevent it, Arredondo continues to fight a criminal case that alleges that he was responsible for putting students in danger by waiting 77 minutes to confront the gunman, who had holed up in adjoining fourth-grade classrooms.

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/documents-released-uvalde-massacre-show-police-chief-follow/story?id=124573336

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New Uvalde body camera video captures parents pleading with officers during 70-minute delay
Body camera video shows desperate pleas as officers waited over 70 minutes to act
By Greg Wehner Fox News
Published August 12, 2025 9:52pm EDT


Newly released body camera video captures parents begging officers to storm Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, when a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers on May 24, 2022.

The video was part of the final batch of documents local authorities withheld during a yearslong legal battle over public access, which was ultimately released this week.

In July, board members of the Uvalde CISD unanimously voted in favor of releasing the records from the horrifying mass shooting at Robb Elementary, after 38 months of silence, grief and legal roadblocks.

Parents could be heard on the released video begging police to storm the elementary school, minutes after the horrific mass shooting by 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos, marking one of the deadliest classroom attacks in U.S. history.

One parent is heard asking, "Whose class is he in?" while another parent yells, "Come on man, my daughter is in there!"

The Associated Press reported that several other videos show officers inside the building and standing outside, with some suggesting they throw gas through the window or search for a key to a locked classroom.

Parents made their way toward a fence and yelled at officers to do something about the shooter.

"Either you go in or I’m going in, bro," an angry parent could be heard telling an officer. "My kids are in there, bro… Please!"

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-uvalde-body-camera-video-captures-parents-pleading-officers-during-70-minute-delay

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There is no reason why he should be gainfully employed anywhere. The oath they take is similar tot he one I took in the military, and there is no such thing as "off duty".