Tuesday, February 16, 2021 by Caitie Switalski Muñoz (WLRN)
Nicolle Martin and Eden Samara, both 17, are seniors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Shown here in Parkland s Pine Trails Park, the students high school careers were upended by the 2018 shooting. Now, they re getting ready to graduate during a global pandemic. (Daniel Rivero / WLRN)
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PARKLAND For the senior class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the fear and isolation of the pandemic were layered on top of an already traumatic few years in school. The students graduating this year were freshmen when 17 people were killed and 17 others were injured during the 2018 shooting at their school.
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Nicolle Martin and Eden Samara, both 17, are seniors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Shown here in Parkland s Pine Trails Park, the students high school careers were upended by the 2018 shooting. Now, they re getting ready to graduate during a global pandemic.
PARKLAND For the senior class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the fear and isolation of the pandemic were layered on top of an already traumatic few years in school. The students graduating this year were freshmen when 17 people were killed and 17 others were injured during the 2018 shooting at their school.
We checked in with students and teachers about what it’s like to finish high school during a pandemic while still trying to heal from the violence that upended their time at Stoneman Douglas.
CNN reporter Randi Kaye was on the ground in Tampa, Florida, where said she asked the police if they were going to do anything about the hundreds of people who
The New York Democrat identified herself as a sexual assault survivor while live on Instagram ahead of detailing her personal experience of the mob that overtook the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“I’m a survivor of sexual assault,” she said, becoming emotional while calling for “accountability” from lawmakers she said helped incite the riots that resulted in five deaths, including that of a Capitol Police officer.
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Ocasio-Cortez pointed to comments that lawmakers made saying people are “making too big a deal over” the breach or calling on her to apologize for tweeting that Sen. Ted Cruz
“We cannot move on without accountability,” she said. “We cannot heal without accountability. All these people telling us to move on are doing so at their own convenience.”
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