Beto O’Rourke heckles Texas leaders at shooting news conference
(Reuters) – Former U.S. Consultant Beto O’Rourke stood up and interrupted a information convention on Wednesday by Texas officers following the newest mass taking pictures within the state, shouting, “You’re doing nothing!”
O’Rourke, a Democrat who’s working for governor of Texas towards Republican Greg Abbott, started yelling to the gathered officers after Abbott completed outlining psychological well being sources out there to these affected by the taking pictures that killed 19 kids and two lecturers in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday.
Individuals shouted O’Rourke down and safety officers moved to escort him out of the room after he broke into the information convention with accusations that the elected officers have been doing nothing to cease gun violence.
“You are a sick son of a bitch who would come to a deal like this to make a political challenge,” one of many individuals yelled at O’Rourke.
Chatting with reporters outdoors the information convention, O’Rourke mentioned: “We owe these mother and father motion. They need us to do one thing proper now. I need us to do one thing proper now. We will do one thing proper now. But when we proceed to just accept this, then it’s on us, it is not simply the governor’s fault, it’s on us.”
(Reporting by Brendan O’Brien, Doina Chiacu, Katharine Jackson; Modifying by Rosalba O’Brien)
