Uvalde school district suspends full police force months after shooting

The school district in Uvalde, Texas, suspended its entire police force on Friday, five months after a shooting in which 19 children and two teachers were killed, the district said in a statement.

The moved followed a wave of outrage over the hiring of a former Texas state trooper who was part of the hesitant law enforcement response during the May shooting at Robb elementary school.

School leaders also put two members of the district police department on administrative leave, one of whom chose to retire instead, according to a statement released by the Uvalde school district.

The extraordinary move to suspend campus police operations one month into a new school year in the south Texas community underscored the sustained pressure that families of some of those killed on 24 May have placed on the district.