Another Deadly Shooting At An American Elementary School
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🗓️ 25 May 2022
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Summary
A gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. Officials say they expect the death toll to rise with additional victims hospitalized but in critical condition.
Today, President Biden is expected to issue an executive order on federal police reform on the two-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd. The order will direct all federal law enforcement agencies to revise their use-of-force policies, create a national registry of officers who have been fired for misconduct, and more.
And in headlines: the Indiana Legislature overrode their governor’s veto of an anti-trans sports bill, the national birth rate rebounded in 2021, and an Iraqi national was arrested for plotting to assassinate George W. Bush.
Show Notes:
- KSAT: “Uvalde elementary shooting: How to help, where to donate blood” – https://bit.ly/3wNdp43
- Everytown for Gun Safety – https://www.everytown.org/
- Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America – https://momsdemandaction.org/
- Texas Gun Sense – https://www.txgunsense.org/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 25th. I'm Hedian Resnick. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Priyanka Eribindi and this is what a day we're going to jump straight into our |
| 0:12.4 | show today because there is a lot going on that we want to tell you about. |
| 0:15.6 | There was yet another mass shooting in the US this time at an elementary school in Texas, |
| 0:20.4 | just two days before its students were set to go on summer break. It happened yesterday in the |
| 0:25.2 | town of Uvalde, Texas, which is just 85 miles west of San Antonio. According to the |
| 0:29.9 | Texas Department of Public Safety and 18-year-old gunmen walked into Rob Elementary and killed 19 |
| 0:37.0 | children, along with at least two teachers. And officials say they expect the death toll to rise |
| 0:42.2 | with additional victims hospitalized but in critical condition. This is the deadliest shooting |
| 0:47.0 | in an elementary school since Newtown, which is unfortunately unfathomably a real comparison |
| 0:53.1 | that we can draw living in the United States of America. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, yesterday really was a nightmare. The ages and identities of all the victims are unknown |
| 1:02.4 | at the time of our recording at 9.30 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday night because their families are still |
| 1:08.4 | being notified. But Pete Aridondo, the police chief of the Uvalde consolidated independent |
| 1:13.8 | school district, said that Rob Elementary students are between the second and fourth grades. |
| 1:19.3 | Children at that grade level are typically between the ages of seven and ten years old. |
| 1:23.9 | The school is 90 percent Hispanic according to the state's data. |
| 1:27.6 | The gunman was shot and killed by police. He has been identified but we on Wad will not say his |
| 1:32.8 | name to give him any notoriety. But Governor Abbott said that the gunman who was also a student |
| 1:37.7 | at the nearby high school had shot his own grandmother shortly before entering Rob Elementary. |
| 1:43.1 | Authorities say he acted alone but have not identified his motive. |
| 1:46.9 | In the wake of the shooting president Biden ordered federal buildings to lower their flags |
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