Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin on Tuesday accused state authorities of selectively releasing information about last month’s school shooting to scapegoat local law enforcement.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin spoke during a City Council meeting on Tuesday. McLaughlin accused state authorities of selectively releasing information about their investigation into the Uvalde shooting last month to disparage local law enforcement., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
“McCraw has continued to, whether you want to call it, lie, leak … mislead or misstate information in order to distance his own troopers and rangers from the response,” McLaughlin said Tuesday evening. The special meeting was held in part to discuss whether to grant a leave of absence for Pete Arredondo, the newly elected City Council member who also serves as the chief of police of the city’s school district and has been criticized for his role in the law enforcement response to the shooting. Local leaders unanimously denied giving him the leave of absence from future council meetings.
The council’s vote followed some of the community’s most forceful public calls for accountability and transparency about the details of the May 24 shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead. Law enforcement officers who responded to the shooting — and in particular Arredondo, who has been labeled by state officials as the “incident commander” on the scene — have been under fire for taking over an hour to engage and take down the shooter.
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