updates into this vinvestigatio, but haven t gotten any answers. even when approach in the person, the d.a. hasn t given those. we ve listened to a little bit, as you played the account of the teacher at the school. and for the survivors it is going to be a long journey ahead. that is why san antonio attorney and the parents of four injured child survivors are now suing the estate of the uvalde shooter, alleging in part they intentionally injured their young children, stole their innocence and forever changed their lives. the lawsuit went into more details reing in part, each of these children have undergone extensive medical care, some surgeries. they have experienced unimaginable emotional trauma. the emotional toll they endured is incomprehensible and will be with them the remind owe of their lives. they, their families and their community will never be the same. this begins a series of to start the process toward any form of accountability, and all of that of course is
point. it s been ten days since the last press conference from the texas department of public safety. they have been referring all questions to the district attorney s office, but we ve asked the d.a. s office for any updates into this investigation, but haven t gotten any answers. even when approach in the person, the d.a. hasn t given those. we ve listened to a little bit, as you played the account of the teacher at the school. and for the survivors it is going to be a long journey ahead. that is why san antonio attorney and the parents of four injured child survivors are now suing the estate of the uvalde shooter, alleging in part they intentionally injured their young children, stole their innocence and forever changed their lives. the lawsuit went into more details reing in part, each of these children have undergone extensive medical care, some surgeries. they have experienced unimaginable emotional trauma. the emotional toll they endured is incomprehensible and will be
anthony barksdale is here, rosana andrews. i m glad you both could join us. very important conversation we need to continue to have until something is done about this. anthony i m going to begin with you. before we get to the spike in shootings, got to get your take on the powerful testimony, really, the experience from the teacher who survived the attack, and officials in vauvalde refusg to answer questions about what happened. do you think they re stalling? do you think that tension is going to go away if they stall? they absolutely are stalling, don. they don t want to expose themselves to any more liability than what they re already facing. they know they have they crewed it up. they let all of those kids down, let the teachers down. now they re letting the community down, the grieving parents down. by not owning up to what the
policies and strategies to do something about it. anthony, let s talk about something that happened recently, the mayor chad nougat dealing with two shootings. going to get worse summer. do you think he s right? is it going get worse as the summer goes on? unfortunately, don, i think it will get worse. i don t see any signs this is slowing across the nation, and it s going to be tough for the united states. rosana over the go ahead. i was just going sto say, in my home city of chicago in the last six months we have had 61 mass shootings, as defined as four victims or more, and that is the everyday experience of gun violence, these really extreme mass shootings that get all of the national attention are more of the exception. the most mass shootings are
failure was and explaining to them how bad their failure was. rosana, the u.s. is on track to pass the record for mass shootings this year. gun violence has been skyr skyrocketing since 2020. how do you explain this rise? well, you know, unfortunately the mass shootings are just a symptom of the larger day in and day out everyday experience of cities around our country with gun violence, and i think we even before the increase that started really two years ago, even on a good day in the united states, we were still having many shootings and homicides and suicides, so we were starting from not a great place, and then you throw fuel on the fire of pulling out sort of every aspect of the safety net in our country because of the pandemic, then the crisis of