Texas Ranger rehired post Uvalde firing
Christopher Ryan Kindall was rehired by the Texas Department of Public Safety (that’s our Highway Patrol, y’all) after being let go due to the Uvalde shooting.
Kindell was suspended in October 2022 and the department had moved to terminate him in January 2023.
“I have decided to alter my preliminary decision based upon a review of the completed Texas Ranger criminal investigation on the May 24, 2022 Robb Elementary School mass shooting, an internal review of the actions of Texas Department of Public Safety officers who responded to the attack, and subsequent to the review by the Uvalde Grand Jury,” McCraw wrote in the letter, dated August 2 and obtained by CNN on Monday.
McCraw’s letter notes that according to 38th Judicial District Attorney Christina Mitchell, “the Uvalde Grand Jury reviewed all law enforcement officers who responded to the attack on Robb Elementary School, and no action was taken on officers employed by the Texas Department of Public Safety.” Mitchell had requested Kindell’s reinstatement, McCraw added.
While victims lay wounded, it took the 376 law enforcement officers on scene 77 minutes to confront and kill the gunman from the time he entered the school through an unlocked door. More than 90 Texas DPS officers responded to the scene and were among the first to arrive.
Kindell told investigators he had no discussions about options to breach the classroom, as a person in his position would have been expected to do, the sources added.
He was seen speaking on the phone multiple times on footage from surveillance cameras and body cameras. Kindell was also seen in one of the school’s hallways as gunfire emerged from one of the classrooms.
“He’s still shooting,” he could be heard telling someone on the phone.
Nothing like quick and decisive phone calls to alleviate a lethal situation.
Former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo and former school police officer Adrian Gonzales are the only law enforcement officers to be indicted on criminal charges so far.
Arredondo faces 10 counts of child endangerment and known criminal negligence while Gonzales faces 29 counts of abandoning and endangering a child, according to the indictments. Arredondo pleaded not guilty last week, CNN affiliate KSAT reported. Gonzales pleaded not guilty on July 25. CNN
Guess Kindall avoids joining the national database for problem cops who have been let go. The following is from a 2021 article on the subject:
There is a Justice Department-funded police misconduct registry called the National Decertification Index (NDI). The NDI lists over 30,000 officer decertifications, which means states have deemed them ineligible to serve as a police officer. It does not track officers accused of misconduct.
But the database is not public, so people in general don’t know it exists if they’re not in the law enforcement community. Even some of those in the community either don’t agree with the current process of the database or simply just do not support it. There’s also nothing mandating every state to contribute to it, so there are still some officers who fall through the cracks.
Rhode Island, New Jersey, Hawaii, California and Georgia are the only states that don’t report decertifications. (NDI Executive Director – ed.) Becar does not know the reason behind these states not reporting.
“That’s another problem with the NDI, it’s voluntary; it’s not mandatory,” Becar said. “Any state submitting now could change their mind if they change administrations or they determine it’s not a priority.”
The difference in laws and policies between all of the states and agencies also plays a big part in reporting decertifications. In some states, an officer has to have been convicted of a crime before he or she can be decertified. In most states, though, they decertify based on the act of committing misconduct rather than a conviction, Goldman said.CNN II
Seems to me Mr. Kindall should pursue a different career, along with a couple hundred Texas LEOs who were at the scene.
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I was on the Job for 29 years(1978-2007) all in uniform. You have to go out; you don’t have to come back. Fuck this guy…
Testify! An epic failure, all around. What happened to “March to the sound of the guns…” and “Have the bugler sound Charge”? One would expect more from Texas Rangers. Gus McCrea and Woodrow Call…weep.
Bring back Joel McCrea AKA Jace Pearson from radio land to kick this guys butt.
I do love “Tales of the Texas Rangers” on my Radio Classics! Jace Pearson would wipe this guy out.
Woodrow and Gus would’ve given him the Jake Spoon treatment.
Did he get back pay? Was his pension intact upon rehire? It’s all about the pension.
Ambassador Worldwide Protection Agency (both national and international) are hiring.
Turd Bolling needs the help.
Testify! Those female employees at Ambassador Worldwide Protection Agency aren’t going to sexually harass themselves.
Even a bigger bonus if the new hirees have training in the Military Forces!
Anybody else see the correlation between the not so supersecret service and this mess in Uvalde ???
We have to have a committee to decide if we should go after the shooters or just wait until he runs out of ammo or kids to kill…
What an asswipe…
I don’t understand.
Why would anyone become a cop if they are not hungry for an opportunity to shoot bad guys?
The ROE are restricted enough as they are, so I would expect cops would be stepping over each other trying to get some licks while the shoot was good.
What gives?
What gives is that the police chief was on scene and the incident commander. When the gunman barricaded himself in the room with those kids, the chief switched from an active shooter response (immediately confront and engage the threat) to a hostage response (isolate and talk). It was baffling that he did so, among many of the failures of that department and him personally.
Law enforcement in a major multi-jurisdictional incident like that is trained much the same way as the military. The ranking officer with primary jurisdiction is the on-scene commander, and he runs the show.
The cops that responded to the scene wanted to engage the threat, but were prevented so by the chief. One of them was in the hallway as his wife was texting him from inside the classroom with the shooter (she died).
The vast majority of the cops that were there were eagerly arriving to do their part and were essentially told by the chief to stop and wait.
Dakota Meyer told his superiors to fuck off while he saved lives. He got a Medal of Honor for it.
Too bad that Texass law enforcement lacked those balls. I guess that would make them the ‘queers’ in ‘steers and queers’.
Couple of reasons.
First of all, I wouldn’t want to work with anyone who was eager to go out to shoot bad guys; that kind of person is dangerous and could get ME killed.
And; you don’t know a shooting is “good” until the investigation is over.
When a cop shoots a person and they die, they have legally committed a homicide. That must be investigated because it is the death of a citizen; so it is seen by the law, and so it is treated by the courts. What needs to be determined is if the homicide was justifiable under the circumstances present at the time. If not, it becomes a Murder, or Manslaughter.
You WILL hear about a “Justifiable Homicide”…but never about a “Justifiable Murder”.
Homicide is the killing of a human being. Murder is the killing of a human being with malice.
Ok. I see your points, but I think I disagree.
Why is being eager to shoot bad guys a bad thing? There is a lot of bad people in this world that need to be fed to the worms, so they stop abusing and killing good people. I don’t even understand why you think this a bad thing. On the contrary, whoever is not eager to spill the enemy’s liquids on the ground is a danger to his team, and will likely be gunshy when the bullets start flying, putting his team in danger.
It’s comic book mentality that doesn’t work in the real world. You are also mixing your memes between law enforcement and military, which are two very different things.
Psst, 5JC…they call this guy Slow Joe for a reason. He ain’t too bright, and I think that his cornbread isn’t done in the middle.
If I had to make a choice between you and Joe, you’d be my third choice.
Put it this way.
I carry concealed. I am prepared to use deadly force to defend myself or any innocent person.
HOWEVER; I do not ever want to pull that gun out and use it. I hope I never have to shoot ANYONE.
I am not eager to kill another human being, no matter if they are a criminal. Because when the shooting is over, you quickly find out that everyone has a mother. Everyone has someone who loves them. Everyone born in this country is a free citizen, a fellow citizen, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; the most important being the right to life.
If I were put into a position where I would have to kill someone, it would be putting me in a place that goes against every moral code I have ever been taught, and every religious belief I have ever held, it would go against anything I consider normal. I would suffer for it in my conscience.
That is why I would want my Police Force to employ men of that caliber, rather than the kind who would be eager to go out for the joy of killing.
Very well said!