Two months before a gunman killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the school district's then-police chief was required to attend a training about how to respond to an active shooter, which instructed in no uncertain terms that an "officer's first priority is to move in and confront the attacker." When Pete Arredondo , the police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District at the time of the May 2022 shooting, was confronted with precisely the situation his training should have prepared him for, he did the opposite of what the training instructed would have saved lives, according to a newly released trove of documents from the Uvalde school district. "Time is the number one enemy during active shooter response," a lesson plan for the t

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