{"id":52145,"date":"2022-07-02T20:13:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T20:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52145"},"modified":"2022-07-02T20:13:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T20:13:56","slug":"one-down-one-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52145","title":{"rendered":"One down, one to go &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220622164335-pete-arredondo-cnn-super-169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52146\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220622164335-pete-arredondo-cnn-super-169-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220622164335-pete-arredondo-cnn-super-169-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220622164335-pete-arredondo-cnn-super-169-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220622164335-pete-arredondo-cnn-super-169-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220622164335-pete-arredondo-cnn-super-169.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pete Arredondo no longer serves on the Uvalde (Texas) city council, having submitted his resignation in light of the staggering publicity surrounding Arredondo&#8217;s other job.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently the police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police department. Arredondo is now on &#8220;administrative leave&#8221; from that post pending a probe into the &#8220;abject failure&#8221; he demonstrated by failing to stop the madman who killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers more than a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s lack of action in the early minutes of the slaughter an &#8220;abject failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t getting anything.<\/p>\n<p>Arredondo took office on the city council a few days after the horrifying massacre. He has missed numerous meetings. He resigned, saying he didn&#8217;t want to be a &#8220;distraction.&#8221; Thanks for nothing, chief.<\/p>\n<p>He is an even bigger &#8220;distraction&#8221; as chief of the Uvalde ISD police department.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just telling ya&#8217;, the man&#8217;s law enforcement career is now over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Arredondo no longer serves on the Uvalde (Texas) city council, having submitted his resignation in light of the staggering publicity surrounding Arredondo&#8217;s other job. He is currently the police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police department. Arredondo is now on &#8220;administrative leave&#8221; from that post pending a probe into the &#8220;abject &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52145\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One down, one to go &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688],"tags":[9951,9934],"class_list":["post-52145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-pete-arredondo","tag-uvalde-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52147,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52145\/revisions\/52147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}