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Here’s a more updated timeline on the #Ulvade shooting:

- 11:28 a.m: Shooter crashed grandmother's truck into a ditch next to Robb Elementary School. He had just shot her in the face at her house. He exits the vehicle, begins firing at people at a funeral home across the street.
11:30 a.m: A 911 call was placed by someone reporting the shots. The shooter then climbed a chain-link fence onto school grounds and began firing outside the school. (Cont)
- Either 11:33 (NBC) or 11:40 (WSJ):

The shooter entered the school unimpeded via a back door that was propped open and began shooting in classrooms 111 and 112, which were connected.
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I woke up to tweets (from journalists!) advocating for the publication of pics/footage of the #Ulvade victims’ bodies, ostensibly to get people to “wake up” about the reality of mass shootings. +
A number of these people referenced Mamie Till’s defiant decision to have an open casket at Emmet Till’s funeral.

The lack of comprehension of what it means to have agency is infuriating. +
“When Mamie Till did it, it jump-started the CRM!”

Are y’all OK?

The Anti-Lynching Bill was introduced in 1918. It was passed & signed into law in The Year of Our Lord 20 and 22.
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“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to,” said Javier Cazares, whose daughter was killed in the 40-minute #RobbElementary school massacre in #Uvalde

This footage shows armed police pinning one man to the ground
The @nytimes reports that the gunman who killed 19 children & 2 teachers at #RobbElementary was rptdly inside the school for “ROUGHLY AN HOUR” hour before police shot him

The real outrage though, is the failure of successive US govts to introduce #GunReform.
#GunControlNow #guns
N.B. - I chose to post this video only after careful deliberation

Posting videos of families in such horrific circumstances should be avoided wherever possible

However, since no faces are clearly visible & since what the footage reveals is important, I took the decision to post
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#TexasSchoolMassacre happened after a kid dropped out at #Ulvade . #SalvadorRamos was bullied
#SalvadorRamos only just turned 18. Failed to graduate.
Shared information about obtaining weapons
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