Uvalde’s school superintendent on June 9 refused to answer questions about the school district’s police chief, several weeks after a mass shooting claimed 21 lives in the Texas town.
“That’s a personnel question. I’m not going to be able to get into that in a public forum,” Hal Harrell, the superintendent, said to one of multiple questions about Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Peter Arrendondo.
Arrendondo, who was not present, gave the order not to immediately breach the classroom inside Robb Elementary School on May 24 despite an armed man being inside and multiple students still being alive, a preliminary investigation found. Arredondo was sworn in as a city councilman in May but missed the council’s meeting on Tuesday….