Fox News announces the Denver-area school where a shooting took place this morning is where @aacuna1's children go. One still a student, two graduates.
@johnrobertsFox: "On occasion the stories touch us personally and that has happened" with "our intrepid reporter Alicia Acuna"
Fox's @aacuna1 joined @AmericaRpts from her son & niece's Denver school where a shooting took place: "I have so many questions as do so many other parents here...I was...working on a different story & I started getting texts from my son saying...police officers everywhere"
Fox's @aacuna1: "I was one of the parents coming down here...[Y]ou were talking about this school safety plan that this suspect was under...[P]arents here had no idea that their kids were walking into the same school w/other kids...being patted down b/c there was enough concern"
Fox's @aacuna1: "[T]here's a tremendous amount of frustration rn w/regard to this student safety plan that we didn't know about...and a lot of questions over...why the student was even still coming...here."
@SandraSmithFox: "Alicia, our heart goes out to you, as parents."
Fox's @aacuna1 reveals two administrators were shot at her son's school while patting down a student b/c Denver Public Schools defunded their SRO program. She adds a student was recently fatally shot in their car, leading students to demand police be reinstated. #DefundThePolice
Fox's @aacuna1 reveals the student fatally shot in February at the school (where today's shooting happened) sat next to her son in class: "The students...have been rocked by that...It's been a tough school year."
She adds the pat downs took place next to the auditorium.
Moments later, Fox's @aacuna1 stops to hug her son after a shooting at his Denver high school earlier today
This was just after saying she & her husband are thinking of transferring him & stepsons out of Denver Public Schools where two shootings have happened in 2023
.@johnrobertsFox SOUNDS OFF on the #DefundThePolice crowd removing police from schools: "[W]hat were you people thinking...in the first place?...[A]cross the country, this is driving parents nuts that school boards are making decisions...then saying, 'oh, crap. We screwed up?'"
A minutes later, @SandraSmithFox digs up the 2020 Denver Public Schools statement touting the removal of police from schools b/c it "contributes to the school to prison pipeline" as "black & brown students arrested...are more likely to end up in the adult criminal system"
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