“They will get to go home to their family and mine will never come home again,” said the father of one child killed.
in a brutal school massacre this week, they are left shell-shocked by not only the devastation the gunman wrought, but by the revelation that, as they see it, those who were sworn to protect and serve them did just the opposite.
“I went to mass with Joe and Irma every single Sunday and they made me a better person,” Garza said. “Peter needs to answer for his actions and show up and talk to us,” he said, referring to Peter Arradondo, the Chief of the Uvalde Consolidated ISD Police Department who was the initial incident commander on Tuesday as the murders were taking place. The Daily Beast has made numerous attempts to contact Arradondo but have been unable to reach him.
Morales and Garza’s comments come after revelations Friday that even the most basic of protocols for an active shooter situation at the school wasn’t followed. The director of the Texas Department of Safety, Steven McCraw,” and delayed confronting the gunman, leaving the children at his mercy for more than 40 minutes, until tactical units finally shot him.
“I feel like they are setting this up to have law enforcement walk away like heroes and some of them are,” said Garza. “But the rest who didn’t do anything are nothing more than cowards. The parents were braver than that and they at least had an idea of what to do.”“I appreciate them at least telling us what happened, knowing that it would make us even more angry,” he said. “I just want to know that my baby girl didn’t die while they stood there and did nothing. I mean nothing but think.
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