A Texas state senator referred to as out Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for failing to publicly acknowledge the two-year anniversary of the mass capturing at an elementary college in Uvalde, Texas.
Friday was the two-year anniversary for the reason that capturing at Robb Elementary College, the place an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 college students and two academics.
The capturing was not talked about within the governor’s social media accounts or his workplace’s press releases.
State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat representing Uvalde, sounded off Saturday morning over the governor’s failure to say that tragic day.
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“Not as soon as did @GregAbbott_TX point out Uvalde yesterday,” Gutierrez wrote on X, the platform previously generally known as Twitter. “The second anniversary of the worst college capturing in Texas historical past and the governor does not say a phrase about it. What a chunk of s–t.”
After the gunman entered the college on Might 24, 2022, regulation enforcement waited greater than an hour to confront and kill the suspect.
The victims’ members of the family just lately filed a lawsuit towards state regulation enforcement over the failed response to the capturing, in keeping with Fox 4. The lawsuit claims troopers didn’t observe their coaching by ready earlier than confronting the shooter.
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A Justice Division report additionally stated victims’ lives may have been saved if the response had not been delayed.
A prison investigation into the regulation enforcement response stays underway. Some regulation enforcement officers have been referred to as to testify in entrance of a grand jury in Uvalde County.
Because the capturing, Texas underneath Abbott has put security measures in place, together with legal guidelines requiring each college district to have an armed guard on every campus.