Across the country, states require more training to prepare students and teachers for mass shootings than for those expected to protect them. The differences were clear in Uvalde, where children and officers waited on opposite sides of the door.
Jinitzail Hernández
Jinitzail Hernández was a video journalist at The Texas Tribune from May 2022 through November 2023. She is interested in using video to tell immersive stories through the lives of the people affected by policy. Jini previously worked as the senior multimedia producer at CQ Roll Call in Washington, D.C., where she covered defense policy and politics through articles, podcasts and videos. Jini has also worked in Jerusalem as a press and policy fellow at The Media Line, a nonprofit American news agency. She graduated with a master's in journalism from Northwestern University and was awarded the Deborah Orin Scholarship from the White House Correspondents' Association.
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“Someone tell me what to do”
Across the country, states require more training to prepare students and teachers for mass shootings than for those expected to protect them. The differences were clear in Uvalde, where children and officers waited on opposite sides of the door.
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