10 students forever marked absent. 10 grieving families. 10 empty desks. 1, 10, 172 - how many is too many for our lawmakers to FINALLY take action?! On Sept 13th, we pay tribute to the more than 170 victims of gun violence in our K-12 schools since Columbine.
#NoMoreEmptyDesks
Our parents want answers!!!!
@Uvalde_CISD
has refused to investigate their school resource officers for their actions on May 24th. We want Dr Hal Harrell to investigate these officers NOW!
Happy Heavenly Birthday to Alexandria “Lexi” Aniyah Rubio. In honor of Lexi’s birthday month, her mom
@kimrubio21
, is hosting a 5k virtual race. Link is in our bio to sign up, and proceeds go to benefit Lives Robbed.
#LexisLegacy5k
Senators want to talk about children who have died of fentanyl poisoning, and how we can prevent it from happening. But when kids die of a mass shooting they never want to talk about how we can prevent it.
We appreciate all the support coming from all over the country! Our families and emotionally and physically exhausted. While we know the fight is not over, we ask for everyone to respect our privacy as we take care of ourselves and our families after a very long week. More soon!
‼️UPDATE‼️: After CNN’s report last night, we have made repeated attempts this morning to get in touch with
@Uvalde_CISD
with no success. Once again, we are calling for *all* UCISD officers to be suspended pending the conclusion of a 3rd party investigation.
The election might be over but the work has just begun. With the next legislative session in Austin set to begin in the new year we want to make it clear: We will never allow lawmakers to forget how they failed us, our children, and the State of Texas!
🧵THREAD + TIMELINE🧵 There has been a lot of breaking news going on today and we wanted to take a moment to outline everything that has happened. ✊🏼✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿✊🏾
Each new shooting forces us to relive the worst day of our lives.
We are fighting for Allen, for Cleveland, for Uvalde, for El Paso, for Sutherland Springs, for Santa Fe, for Midland, for Dallas. We fight for your town.
We shouldn’t have to fight this hard.
At the 77 min mark of our families being outside UCISD offices,
@GloriaCazares82
made it known how long it had been! Still, even after this, UCISD hasn’t suspended a single officer! ✊🏼✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
#TeamGloria
This is
@GloriaCazares82
. 77 minutes, that’s how long her daughter Jackie waited to be saved from Robb Elementary to get help. She let
@Uvalde_CISD
know how long 77 minutes feels.
@ksatnews
We are tired. We know that, for the families of the victims at Covenant, this hell is just beginning. We are with you. This is why we fight for change.
We are still out here and still don’t have answers!! If you live in Uvalde or the surrounding area, come stop by! We need to show UCISD how many people are calling for justice and accountability for our children - 1000 N Getty St Uvalde TX
#UvaldeTX
#SayTheirNames
The Committee made our families wait 16 hours to testify. They are making us wait before voting on HB2744 This is a stall tactic to distance committee members from the emotion of our testimonies. We will never have such a luxury. Please call the committee to demand a vote.
We’re here for a reason.
We are inside Senator Schumer’s office because we cannot keep waiting for a vote on the Assault Weapons Ban when people are dying every day.
Action needs to happen NOW.
We are so proud of Jazmin Cazares for her courage and unwavering commitment to the fight against gun violence; born out of the deep love for her sister, Jackie.
Today she spoke on two panels at
@sxsw
.
Fifth grade teacher arrested after telling one of her students that she had made a “kill list” of the students she taught and the colleagues she worked with.
The 2023-24 school year has commenced in Uvalde. The moms at Lives Robbed continue to work toward ensuring the safety of all students, knowing that time is not on our side.
Hug your babies. Take the pictures. They’re all we have left.
Remember when
@BCross052422
called
@GovAbbott
chickenshit for saying it was unconstitutional to raise the age to 21 to buy an assault rifle? Well we wanted to make sure that everyone could tell him how we feel about his inaction!
These statements are nothing but an attempt to gaslight and silence our families. Our families are looking for justice, they are looking for answers. We’d welcome answers from the
@Uvalde_CISD
, the DA,
@TxDPS
, and
@GovAbbott
- but that has not happened!
Last night another shooting impacted a community in America. When is enough going to be enough? When are we going to decide that we want no more victims of gun violence? When is saving lives going to become a priority?
SUPPORT LIVES ROBBED 🧵 A lot of you have asked how you can help support our families as they honor their children through
@LivesRobbed
. Check out this thread on how you can support our work to honor our children, and spread awareness of the impacts of gun violence.
#ICYMI
- CNN uncovered evidence that the acting Uvalde police cheif knew kids were alive and injured, cowering for their lives in classrooms 111 and 112 - and did nothing to try and save them.
Uvalde’s acting police chief knew there were “eight to nine” children alive and needing rescue from a shooter in the classrooms at Robb Elementary but failed to organize help, new audio of a phone call and CNN analysis of newly obtained video shows.
9/27/2022 - After months of not getting any answers, Lives Robbed parents started protesting at the UCISD admin building, demanding that officers be suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.
Our parents want answers!!!!
@Uvalde_CISD
has refused to investigate their school resource officers for their actions on May 24th. We want Dr Hal Harrell to investigate these officers NOW!
.
@RepTonyGonzales
says he’s agrees with the UCISD decision after his own constituents called on UCISD to have more transparency and accountability. Yet before the UCISD decision he did nothing to help those constituents get answers; where was the father of 6 then? 🤷🏼♀️
(1/2) As a father of six, the safety of our kids is my number one priority.
Since the Uvalde tragedy, I have met with 30+ Superintendents & ISD’s across TX-23, including Uvalde, to ensure they have all the resources they need to guarantee our schools are safe and secure.
Yesterday was the last day of the TX lege session. Gov Abbott has already called a special session to address taxes and border issues. Guess he’s ready to say the quiet part out loud - he never cared about our 19 children and 2 teachers. (He refused to call one last May.)
.
@BCross052422
has been outside the
@Uvalde_CISD
admin building for over 90 hours. He’s demanding that UCISD officers be suspended pending the conclusion of an investigation with results and recommendations.
Recently there have been remarks by members of our community regarding the media. That the coverage of the corruption in Uvalde is for “the ratings”. That members of the media aren’t covering the “good things” going on in our community.
‼️TOMORROW 9:00am CT‼️Director McCraw will give an update on the D.P.S. investigation into the Robb Elementary School shooting. Our parents will be there to address the commission. You can watch live at the link below:
Phelan did nothing. Guillen sat on paperwork. Burrows hid in his locked office, surrounded by his NRA swag.
You’re as spineless as the cops that stood outside our children’s classrooms. They failed our children on May 24 but the next one is on you. There’s blood on your hands.
Like many families in America, our families are preparing for a holiday where a loved ones favorite Thanksgiving food will be served - yet they are not there to enjoy it. When are politicians going to stop talking about “ending gun violence” and decide to do something about it?
Mayah Zamora is one of eleven survivors from Room 112. Her mom and dad both testified in support of H.B. 2744 over two weeks ago. They are on a different path to healing but we are stronger together.
On May 24, there were 21 Lives Robbed but an entire community was devastated.
We stood with our GVP partners and Generation Lockdown in Washington, DC this week.
We stood with the generation whose school experience is defined by active shooter drills, lockdowns, and surviving multiple mass shootings.
We stood with them because our children couldn’t.
This is the crowd that showed up to show their support for the superintendent who announced his plan to retire. Would have been great to get this kind of support last week. 😐
10/6/2022 -
@BCross052422
continued his protest into the next day, demanding all UCISD officers be suspended pending the outcomes of an independent investigation - and more parents/families showed up in solidarity!
After the shooting at Covenant School
@fredtjoseph
penned a piece entitled “Gun Violence is a Decision”. For over a decade, legislators have decided guns and NRA dollars are more valuable than our children’s lives. We will no longer accept or allow this to be the reality.
.
@TxDPS
knew, Uvalde PD knew - who else knew?!? DPS should not be responsible for the investigation into their own actions on that day. DPS should recuse themselves from the investigation, and transfer all investigative authority over to the FBI.
As acting Uvalde police chief resigns, questions remain about what Texas's top law enforcement agency did and didn't know about the school shooting | CNN
CNN EXCLUSIVE: Parents outraged in Uvalde after officer who responded to school shooting is rehired to protect some of the same children.
@ShimonPro
reports:
If I can’t have her, then those who failed her will never know peace!
If I can’t have her, then those who failed her will never know peace!
If I can’t have her, then those who failed her will never know peace!
During his testimony, Jackie’s dad said his “baby girl was full of life and love”. He imagined her thoughts as she lay in her coffin. He listed all the life events she would miss because she was murdered in her classroom at nine years old. He thanked you for listening.
#21for21
Tomorrow in Austin is the hearing for H.B.2744 which would raise the age from 18 to 21 to purchase a semi-automatic weapon. Our families will be there because, days after his 18th birthday, the gunman that murdered our babies, legally purchased two AR platform rifles. Join us.
“I arrived here today at 8:00 am and, as we waited more than 13 hours, I am reminded of May 24, 2022, when we waited hours to be told our daughter would never come home. I expressed confusion then and I’m perplexed now.
Did you think we would go home?!”
@kimrubio21
at 11:03P
Raise the age or we’ll raise hell.
The Community Safety Committee and
@RyanGuillen
must bring HB 2744 to a vote and raise the age to buy a semi-automatic weapon to 21.
21 for 21.
Firearms are the leading cause of death for American children and teens. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 147 mass shootings already this year.
Call your members of Congress (3 calls) and request they co-sponsor the Assault Weapons Ban. Enough is enough.
From October 21-23 Lives Robbed in partnership with Luna Liaisons will be hosting an online art auction. All proceeds will go directly to support Lives Robbed. Link to the art auction can be found in the link in our bio!
#UvaldeTx
#UvaldeStrong
#LivesRobbed
10/5/2022 -
@ShimonPro
broke a story on
@AC360
about a former DPS officer who at the time, was working as a UCISD as a resource officer. And who was referred to the IG for further investigation into her actions on May 24
More details into how police failed our children. Our children deserve better. Or children deserve justice. We will continue to fight for transparency and accountability to hold those in positions of power accountable!
#UvaldeStrong
It’s the phone call that should have made the difference. Instead, it would be another 40 minutes until police finally enter the room and kill the gunman.
Joining
@ac360
tonight with the latest on new information in Uvalde
UCISD has still not agreed to
@BCross052422
calls for their officers to be suspended and he is still outside their admin building. We will not stop fighting until we have answers - ensuring the safety of the children in our community remains the top priority.
10/6/2022 - UCISD released a statement saying that “Ms. Elizondo's statement in the audio is not consistent with the District's expectations. Effective today (October 6), Crimson Elizondo has been terminated from her position with the Uvalde CISD.”
Spending most of her time outside of the building without tactical fear Officer Elizondo is caught on body cam footage saying “If my son had been in there, I would not have been outside. I promise you that.”
The Former DPS trooper is on body camera talking with officers after police breached the classroom.
Someone asks if she had children at the school that day.
she said: “If my son had been in there, I would not have been outside. I promise you that.”
To be clear, UCISD Lieutenant Miguel R. Hernandez KNEW on *July 28th* that Officer Elizondo was under investigation and a decision was made to proceed with her hiring. We do not know who ultimately made the decision to hire her with the information they had.
🧵
@ShimonPro
reported that Betancourt arrived on scene and started instructing officers not to breach the classroom door. Also, this article states that “[DPS] officers at the scene appeared to believe that the captain [Betancourt] was issuing orders.”
This is Beau Beasley running and playing at the Generation Lockdown rally in DC 3 days ago. 8 months ago he ran for his life at a parade. Yesterday hundreds of children, like Beau and our babies, ran for their lives at Covenant School. Enough. Join us and fight for your children.
On May 24th there were systematic failures across all law enforcement agencies. This is exactly why our parents have been calling for transparency and accountability since day one.
#UvaldeStrong
#LivesRobbed
This is all from footage released by the Uvalde mayor months ago. He released the footage despite the local DA warning him not to.
Analysis of footage by The New York Times found major gaps and contradictions in the D.P.S. findings.
Want to support
@LivesRobbed
? Please click the link below to learn how you can support us as we work raise awareness about gun violence prevention.
#UvaldeTx
#LivesRobbed
Our families have demanded transparency and accountability since day one. It is disheartening to find out that DPS had answers to our questions, this entire time!
An example of the lack of transparency by the DPS in the Uvalde investigation. According to
@ksatnews
DPS officers were referred for IG investigation in late July — yet we learned of it much later.
Not only has
@GovAbbott
failed us, but Dir McCraw of
@TxDPS
has, and now what we’ve known all along - that District Attorney Christina Busbee refuses to release information so that others can be held accountable!
#LivesRobbed
Mayor: “This smells of a cover-up to no end for me from the DPS’s side because there’s been no transparency, no forthcoming with honesty and so forth,” he said.
‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ “As a result of the recent developments, Lt. Miguel Hernandez and Ken Mueller have been placed on administrative leave, and the District has made the decision to suspend all activities of the Uvalde CISD Police Department for a period of time.”
@fakedansavage
Our organization was set up by parents who lost children at Robb Elementary. We are looking to hold those police officers accountable, but we cannot do it without your help! Please consider donating so we can keep up the fight.
Remember when
@BCross052422
called
@GovAbbott
chickenshit for saying it was unconstitutional to raise the age to 21 to buy an assault rifle? Well we wanted to make sure that everyone could tell him how we feel about his inaction!
10/6/2022 - we learned that as a part of the hiring process/back ground check Lieutenant Miguel R. Hernandez received a letter from James Lopez, Deputy IG on *July 28* informing him that Officer Elizondo is under investigation for her actions on May 24th.
Will you run for
#LexisLegacy5K
?! This Saturday in Uvalde we are inviting the community to come out and run, walk, power walk with us to honor Lexi and raise funds for Lives Robbed. Link to register is in our bio!
In order to keep up the fight we need your help. Please consider donating $5, $10, $21. Your donation helps us pay for gas to get to Austin and flights to DC. Your support means we can do the work to save lives!
Additionally, although we don’t know what day Officer Elizondo started with UCISD, we do know that as of *July 28th* (but potentially long before then) she knew she was being investigated by the IG, and made the decision to look for and apply for a new job.
There is enough evidence that
@TxDPS
officers were culpable in the murders of 19 children and 2 teachers. Per his own words McCraw should turn in his resignation immediately to
@GovAbbott
!
#ResignMcCraw