Uvalde Superintendent Refuses to Talk About Embattled School District Police Chief as Lawmakers Start Probe

Says district will hire more police

Hal Harrell, superintendent of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, speaks during the first public meeting since the May 24 mass shooting at an elementary school, in Uvalde, Texas, on June 3, 2022. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Uvalde’s school superintendent on June 9 refused to answer questions about the school district’s police chief, several weeks after a mass shooting claimed 21 lives in the Texas town.

“That’s a personnel question. I’m not going to be able to get into that in a public forum,” Hal Harrell, the superintendent, said to one of multiple questions about Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Peter Arrendondo.