“It’s tempting to look away. To cover our ears and avert our gaze and harden our hearts. But we’re better than that. We have to be. Our children need us to be,” writes Tribune News Service columnist Heidi Stevens.
Mourners visit a memorial for the victims of a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26, 2022.It was an editor’s note attached to a video published by the Austin American-Statesman, of Uvalde, Texas, police officers’ delayed response during the Robb Elementary School shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers.
“They have a lot of resources there in Highland Park,” Bobbie Brown, 62, of Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, told reporter Robert Klemko. “Ain’t that something? Our babies see people get shot while they’re at a playground, and there’s no counseling. They have to suck it up and deal with it.” The sound of children screaming has been removed … from the minds of the callous doubters who disputed a story about a 10-year-old girl becoming pregnant after she was raped — a story President Joe Biden told during the signing of an executive order on abortion access in early July. Abortion foes and conservative media, including the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, implied the story was made up, only to walk back their doubts after a 27-year-old man was arrested in the case.
“We are also publishing the entire video for those who want to see what we obtained,” he continued. “In both videos we blurred the identity of a child who exits a restroom as the shooter approaches the classroom. The child runs back to the restroom to hide and was later rescued. We also have removed the sound of children screaming as the gunman enters the classroom. We consider this too graphic.”
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