Here’s how Pete Arredondo and other law enforcement differ on what happened during the Uvalde shooting

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This week, new details emerged about the timeline of events as media outlets including the Tribune reported on surveillance video from the hallways that day and a transcript of officers’ body cameras. In a public hearing to lawmakers Tuesday, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw provided more details about the sequence of events and missed opportunities.

But security footage from the hallways does not capture any attempt by officers, including Arredondo, to open the doors. At 12:11 p.m. nearly 40 minutes after the shooting began, Arredondo called for a master key that would allow him to unlock classroom doors, according to the transcript. It took about six minutes for a set of keys to arrive, and Arredondo began testing them on a different classroom door, according to the transcript and Arredondo’s recollection.

A law enforcement timeline provided to the Tribune this week has Arredondo’s call for those items at 11:40 a.m. McCraw said Tuesday that officers with rifles arrived within minutes of the shooting’s start and could have aided an entry into the room. That decision left him with no direct communication to other officers responding to the scene. Instead, Arredondo used his cellphone to make calls to police dispatch and communicate what he was seeing.But the transcripts of the timeline provided to the Tribune show Arredondo asking for a radio: “I need you to bring a radio for me,” Arredondo told dispatch.

“It sounds like a hostage rescue situation,” the DPS officer said. “Sounds like a UC [undercover] rescue. They should probably go in.”

cIvILiaNs dON’t nEed guNs, wE hAVe tHE poliCe tO prOTeCT uS aNd kEEp US saFE!

That’s called…lying.

... sadly texas cannot fathom that honesty is the best policy

a fair amount of time has passed to let the facts come out- the demand for all of the answers 24 hours after the tragedy is irresponsible

Thank you for continuing your great work on this important story.

Texas. Ya'll better vote for Beto.

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