Joe Biden will visit Texas “in the next few days”

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10:38 p.m. : The American president, Joe iden, notably announced that he will visit Uvalde, Texas“in the coming days.”

10:37 p.m. : The President of the United States, Joe Biden, calls for legislation to regulate police interventions and prevent blunders, like the one that resulted in the death of George Floyd two years ago. In a press conference, he recalls that it is a question of preventing “bad behavior” and salutes, in passing, the police who intervened yesterday, in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children died in a shooting at an elementary school.

10:29 p.m. : Happening Now: President Biden signs a historic Executive Order to advance effective, accountable policing and strengthen public safety. https://t.co/mQf2t5DGBt

10:30 p.m. : “We’re here to say enough is enough. We need to act,” launches the American president, Joe Biden, in a press conference. Two years after the death of George Floyd, he announces that he has signed an executive act providing for strengthening the responsibility of law enforcement and strengthening the safety of citizens and asks Congress to adopt a “George Floyd” act along these lines. .

10:23 p.m. : “We are here today in memory of George Floyd and to honor the memory of all those we have lost, and to take action.”

The vice-president of the United States, Kamala Harris, speaks at this very moment in front of the press, before the intervention of president Joe Biden. She returns, on the occasion of this sad anniversary, to the legislative efforts made by the elected Democrats to try, in vain, to pass a reform on the responsibility of the police.

10:17 p.m. : As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer. His killing stays with us all to this day, especially those who loved him.

10:17 p.m. : America is in mourning after the Uvalde shooting. But on Twitter, former President Barack Obama recalls that the country is also celebrating a sad anniversary today: that of the death of George Floyd, this unarmed black man who died of suffocation under the knee of a police officer.

10:01 p.m. : Who was Salvador Ramos? This 18-year-old shot dead 19 children at a Texas elementary school yesterday. Describe “like someone from calm, discreet, who had difficulty making friends”he would have, in recent months, “completely changed” and “would have become extremely aggressive”. The France 2 journalist on the spot, Camille Guttin, takes stock of what we know about the shooter in the Uvalde shooting.

9:54 p.m. : O’Rourke spoke to reporters after he was booted from Abbott’s school shooting presser.”He says this was unpredictable. This was totally predictable, and I predict this will continue to happen when you continue to have a governor who will not stand up for the people of Texas.” https://t.co/ZUU2PSTdna

9:54 p.m. : “He says that [cette fusillade] was not predictable. It was completely predictable, and I anticipate it will continue to happen as long as we have a governor who does nothing for the people of Texas.”

The elected Democrat of Texas Beto O’Rourko interrupted earlier the press conference of the governor of the state, Greg Abbott. The Republican, in favor of carrying firearms, intervened the day after the massacre in which 19 children from a primary school were shot dead by a young armed man. Politico questioned the Democrat following his speech.

8:42 p.m. : Since 2012, there have been more victims in killings across the Atlantic than in the previous thirty years. Their perpetrators who target schools are exclusively men, often very young. In a few infographics, we show this acceleration in violence.

8:14 p.m. : As Lauric Henneton, a specialist in American society, explains in this interview, the question of the regulation of firearms is an issue that deeply divides Democrats and Republicans.

8:09 p.m. : Beto O’Rourke interrupts ongoing press conference by Texas Gov. Abbott and other officials. https://t.co/qa8YY0ghQy

9:07 p.m. : The elected Texan Beto O’Rourke, Democrat, interrupted the press conference to take from the governor of Texas. “You don’t do anything. It’s all completely predictable,” he tries to say, before being taken to task and asked to leave (and by the way, to be called a “sick son of a bitch”), as shown in this video shared on Twitter by a CNN reporter.

7:56 p.m. : “Uvalde is devastated. Families are broken, hearts are forever broken (…) People are rightly angry at what has just happened (…) Our job is to “to ensure that the community is not destroyed. All Texans must come together to support the families affected by this tragedy”, added Governor Greg Abbott.

7:53 p.m. : Before the Uvalde Elementary School shooting, the shooter, an 18-year-old young man, shot his grandmother, hitting her in the face, reports Texas Governor Greg Abbott at a press conference. Returning to the events preceding the shooting, he confirms that the shooter had posted three messages on Facebook, a few minutes apart: “I’m going to kill my grandmother”, “I killed my grandmother” and “I am going to open fire in a primary school”.

7:20 p.m. : “The Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 showed that after the emotion of the first few days things go back to normal. To me that suggests that the Uvalde one won’t have an impact either. What can play is the accumulation of killings, the fact that they are more and more numerous, and that the NRA is no longer able to finance electoral campaigns.The coming weeks will give us a indication of the possibility of a change occurring.”