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Pete Arredondo no longer serves on the Uvalde (Texas) city council, having submitted his resignation in light of the staggering publicity surrounding Arredondo’s other job.

He is currently the police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police department. Arredondo is now on “administrative leave” from that post pending a probe into the “abject failure” he demonstrated by failing to stop the madman who killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers more than a month ago.

Arredondo needs to do something else for a living, in my humble view. Police are probing the Robb Elementary School massacre and have described Arredondo’s lack of action in the early minutes of the slaughter an “abject failure.”

The police authorities, including the Department of Public Safety, have clammed up. Parents, grandparents, siblings and loved ones of the victims are demanding answers. They aren’t getting anything.

Arredondo took office on the city council a few days after the horrifying massacre. He has missed numerous meetings. He resigned, saying he didn’t want to be a “distraction.” Thanks for nothing, chief.

He is an even bigger “distraction” as chief of the Uvalde ISD police department.

I’m just telling ya’, the man’s law enforcement career is now over.

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