The Uvalde, Texas school district suspended all police officers after protests by 19 children killed in the May 24 massacre. The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD) said the suspension will be indefinite and will affect five officers and a security guard.
The police were immediately heavily criticized for handling the massacre last May: the agents waited more than an hour before breaking into the school and gave the perpetrator, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, all the time to do it.
The agents’ mistakes were further investigated in a report prepared by a Texas parliamentary commission of inquiry and released last July: The report concluded that the nearly 400 officers who attended the school were responsible for a chain were responsible for “system errors”. extremely poor decision-making”. In early August, county police chief Pete Arredondo was fired.