Devastated Uvalde families demand answers on police response
Days after the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, devastated families continue to demand answers, after officials admit they did not act quickly enough. Brian Higgins, a professor of disaster management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a…
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A mother whose daughter died in a 2012 mass shooting shares message with Uvalde parents
Nearly 10 years after her daughter Jessi was killed in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater, Sandy Phillips is visiting yet another mass shooting site. Since her daughter and 11 others were killed in July 2012, Phillips has traveled the country…
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As pressure mounts after string of mass shootings, will Republicans agree to gun reforms?
Thousands of people have been killed by guns in the U.S. so far this year and there have been 216 mass shootings, including in Buffalo and Uvalde. Calls for new gun safety laws often follow these tragedies, but Washington has…
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PBS NewsHour full episode, May 27, 2022
Friday on the NewsHour, a top official admits law enforcement should have acted more quickly during the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Then, how COVID-19 and anti-Asian sentiments have hurt businesses in Chinatown neighborhoods in New York and across the…
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Remembering the victims of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting
As we’ve been reporting, 21 people died this week in Uvalde, Texas in a shooting at Robb Elementary School. We want to take a moment to remember those 19 children and two teachers, the lives they led and the legacies…
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Brooks and Capehart on the tragedy in Uvalde and Georgia’s primary elections
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the potential for meaningful changes to federal gun regulations after the unspeakable tragedy at an elementary school…
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How police officers should have reacted to the Texas elementary school shooting
Law enforcement in Uvalde, Texas is facing the ire of a grieving community as officers there admitted Friday that key decisions made during the time of the elementary school shooting were wrong. Fred Fletcher, retired Chattanooga police chief and former…
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Anger, torment grip Uvalde residents as details emerge on police response to the shooting
Friday was supposed to be the first day of summer break for students in Uvalde, Texas. Instead the community is still reeling from the shooting that left 19 children and two school teachers dead. Days after the attack, new details…
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