Grief-stricken parents channeled their anger and frustration into political action in the...
Instead, the news about Elizondo prompted outraged and reinvigorated activists to flock to his campsite. He was usually alone or with just a handful of supporters, but 30 people were there at 6:30 a.m. the next morning, and the crowd grew, with signs reading, “Families deserve the truth,” “If you did not do your job give up your badge,” and giant photos of Robb victims.
In a town of just 16,000 people, the activists hear something like this most places they go. Several have come to assume that most of Uvalde’s white residents, at least those comfortably well off, hope that the parents will simply grieve quietly. “I’m so afraid of everyone just forgetting and moving on,” she said through tears midway through her husband’s sit-in. “This community deserves the transparency. And we deserve to stop having our names run though the ground. We have never been violent.”
“It might be our only opportunity,” Martinez said. “We are on the front stage where everyone can see.”Nobody has worked the stage more astutely than Brett Cross. They said they joined three other sets of bereaved parents — including Javier Cazares, who lost his daughter, Jacklyn, 9, at Robb and is now a write-in candidate for county commissioner — to create the non-profit Lives Robbed because they worried about the permanence of the other groups.
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