Uvalde just suspended its entire school police force. The bold move from the school district comes soon after their cops hired an officer under a state investigation for failing to respond in May.
The school district in Uvalde, Texas, announced on Friday that it suspended the operations of its entire police force five months after school-district police and other officers failed over and over again to stop a shooter from killing 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary.
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District released a statement saying that with the school police temporarily nixed, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers will be on campuses in the rural south Texas town “for a period of time.” The district also stated that two officials — Lt. Miguel Hernandez and Ken Mueller — have been placed on administrative leave. Mueller, the director of student services, retired instead of accepting the suspension.
