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What Next - What Texas Can’t Forget

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

One tragedy replaces another in the headlines—that’s just how things go. 


The Texas state legislature isn’t scheduled to convene until January 2023, when the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde will no longer be fresh in people’s minds, and the momentum for changing Texas’s gun laws will be long gone. One state senator, however, won’t accept that.


Guest: Roland Gutierrez, Democratic Texas State Senator for District 19, which includes Uvalde.


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The news cycle moves so quickly that we too often forget the things we should remember.

0:42.6

Like the shooting in a Yavaldi school, they killed 19 children and two of their teachers.

0:48.1

Now to the latest on the investigation to the Yavaldi Texas Elementary School shooting.

0:53.0

Four weeks after 19 children and two teachers were killed, we're learning new detailed about the

0:57.7

police response and seeing the first day. We spoke with someone who'll never forget. Texas State

1:03.5

Senator Roland Gutierrez who serves the citizens of Yavaldi. He spent much of the last month looking

1:10.6

for answers. Senator, what's the mood like in the town today? If I were to walk around,

1:18.1

does it still feel like this is a place where tragedy struck?

1:21.2

You know, absolutely. I think that it's still a town that is, you know, trying to heal,

1:28.3

trying to begin those beginning phases of healing.

1:40.0

Senator Gutierrez represents Yavaldi in the Texas State House. He came to the city the night

1:45.2

of May 24th and he stayed there for most of the time since to be there for his constituents,

1:51.4

to listen and to give them what support he can. I showed up to a civic center that was that night

1:58.4

called a reunification center where parents gave DNA. To try to mash themselves with their children

2:05.9

that were either in a hospital that they didn't know about or were unfortunately succumbed to

2:13.2

the gunfire. And so I saw these parents just wailing and screaming like you've never heard before.

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