Police departments converge in Uvalde include Fort Worth, Lubbock, Del Rio, Allen, Conroe, Pearland, Grand Prairie, College Station and Bedford.
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Qale As Folk (aka Qale)
Jun 4 '22, 19:36
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Many of those departments do not appear to be operating here under any formal agreement with the city of Uvalde.
The outside officers have been especially visible at funerals for victims of the massacre. Reporters have been barred from attending the services and have been limited to designated viewing areas. Although the number of journalists in town has dwindled, interactions with police have become tense.
Officers have threatened to arrest journalists for walking on public streets near funerals. Police also have been seen mingling with motorcycle club members, who have interfered with journalists’ efforts to observe and photograph funerals by physically surrounding them and obstructing their view, even in designated media areas.
Lt. Chris Daniels, a spokesman for the Fort Worth Police Department, said 12 of its officers volunteered to go to Uvalde, some 350 miles away, after the Texas Police Chiefs Association issued a statewide appeal for assistance for Uvalde.
The Fort Worth officers and other visiting law enforcement personnel are staying at the Alto Frio Baptist Camp and Conference Center in Leakey, 40 miles north of Uvalde.
Alto Frio says it is hosting 150 to 200 Texas Rangers, county sheriff’s deputies and other law enforcement officers.
Marked patrol vehicles from the College Station Police Department have been observed fulfilling a very specific role: standing sentry outside the home of Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.
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