Parkland survivor gives harrowing testimony at Kavanaugh hearing

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Parkland survivor gives harrowing testimony at Kavanaugh hearing
By Lydia Wheeler - 09/07/18 03:40 PM EDT

Aalayah Eastmond, a survivor of the February mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., on Friday offered harrowing testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the final day of the hearing on the nomination of President Trump Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh.

She expressed concern about Kavanaugh's views on guns, noting that she thinks he would strike down any assault weapons ban. She urged the committee to appoint a judge who will keep Americans safe from gun violence.

She told the committee in grave detail about the day a gunman opened fire in the classroom she was in and how she used the body of a classmate who had been shot to shield herself from the bullets.

“I followed every movement of his body,” she said. “When he fell over, I fell over with him. I then placed myself underneath his lifeless body. Placing his arm across my body and my head underneath his back. Bullets continued flying.”

She also slammed Kavanaugh over reports that he refused to shake the hand of a slain classmate’s father earlier in the week. 

“If Kavanaugh doesn’t even have the decency to shake hands with the father of a victim, he definitely won’t have the decency to make life-changing decisions that affect real people,” she said.


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http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/405628-parkland-survivor-gives-harrowing-testimony-at-kavanaugh-hearing

[endicom]

What the blank is this about? Does everyone in the country get to speak?

[dfwgator]

What the blank is this about? Does everyone in the country get to speak?

Only if you're a liberal.

[Wingnut]

Lying pos parroting the wouldnt shake his hand b.s.   the press will lap it up.

[INVAR]

Basically we have arrived at the place where a majority of the people in this land say "f_ck the Constitution", I want you to do as we say.

[Jazzhead]

If the Roe precedent must stay, them so must Heller.

Conversely,  if the Heller precedent is to remain,  then so should Roe.   

Any other position is craven hypocrisy.   I support Kavanaugh because I think he recognizes and agrees with this.   If these decisions are to be overturned,  it should be the job of the federal and state legislatures, implementing the Constitution's amendment process.     

[Emjay]

Parkland survivor gives harrowing testimony at Kavanaugh hearing
By Lydia Wheeler - 09/07/18 03:40 PM EDT

Aalayah Eastmond, a survivor of the February mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., on Friday offered harrowing testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the final day of the hearing on the nomination of President Trump Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh.

She expressed concern about Kavanaugh's views on guns, noting that she thinks he would strike down any assault weapons ban. She urged the committee to appoint a judge who will keep Americans safe from gun violence.

She told the committee in grave detail about the day a gunman opened fire in the classroom she was in and how she used the body of a classmate who had been shot to shield herself from the bullets.

“I followed every movement of his body,” she said. “When he fell over, I fell over with him. I then placed myself underneath his lifeless body. Placing his arm across my body and my head underneath his back. Bullets continued flying.”

She also slammed Kavanaugh over reports that he refused to shake the hand of a slain classmate’s father earlier in the week. 

“If Kavanaugh doesn’t even have the decency to shake hands with the father of a victim, he definitely won’t have the decency to make life-changing decisions that affect real people,” she said.


more
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/405628-parkland-survivor-gives-harrowing-testimony-at-kavanaugh-hearing

Don't mean to be insensitive but what the heck is this person doing testifying before this committee?