A week and a half after an 18-year-old white supremacist murdered ten Black people in a mass shooting in a #Buffalo supermarket, another 18-year-old killed nineteen children and two teachers at a school in #Uvalde, Texas attended by predominantly working-class and Latino/Latina students. The husband of one of those teachers subsequently died of a heart attack brought on by grief.
The town of Uvalde budgets almost half a million dollars for school #security and monitoring services, augmented by $69,000 from the #Texas state #government for metal detectors, barriers, security systems, “campus-wide active shooter alarm systems,” and the like. Despite receiving almost 40% of the city budget and an additional half a million dollars of state grant money, the Uvalde #police dragged their feet for an unusually long time during the massacre while parents begged them to do something.

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