Uvalde’s School Suspends Entire Police After Outrage

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Uvalde School District said on Friday following a new wave of anger over the hiring of a former Texas state police officer who was part of a hesitant law enforcement response to the May shooting. Removed distraught campus police from duty. at Robb Elementary School.

According to a statement issued by the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, school leaders also suspended two members of the district police force, one of whom chose to resign instead.

The unusual move by Uvalde school leaders to suspend campus policing is a breakthrough for the continued pressure some families of the 19 children killed in the May 24 attacks continue to have on the district. embossed.

Brett Cross, whose 10-year-old son Uziyah Garcia was one of the victims, has been protesting outside Uvalde’s school administration building for the past two weeks. He spent over 70 minutes in a 4th grade classroom.

“I did it!” Cross tweeted.

The school district said it would seek additional help from the Texas Department of Public Safety, which already has dozens of security guards in the district.

“We are confident that the safety of our staff and students will not be compromised during this transition,” the school district said in a statement.

The move not only hired a former Department of Public Safety officer who was one of about 400 police officers who the school district rushed to the scene of Robb Elementary School, but also killed at least seven police officers she was later placed under internal control. It takes place the day after it is revealed that he was one of the police officers. investigation of her behavior.

Officer Crimson Elizondo was fired Thursday, a day after CNN first reported her employment. She has not responded to voicemails or messages left by her AP.