6 Time August 17/August 24, 2020
For the Record
‘I do think it
was a lot of
negligence
from our
leaders that
led to the
shooting, and
I have not
f o rg i ve n t h at .’
KIKO RODRIGUEZ GLENN,
whose father survived the
Aug. 3, 2019, mass shooting
at an El Paso Walmart,
a year after the event that
left 23 dead
‘What we
cannot
accept is
when we are
forced to
live in fear.’
ESTHER SALAS,
federal judge, in an Aug. 3
video statement calling
for increased privacy
protections for judges;
her son was killed and her
husband wounded in an
attack at her home in July
‘He believed that in all
of us, there exists the capacity
for great courage.’
BARACK OBAMA,
former U.S. President, in a July 30 eulogy for Congressman John Lewis
‘WE FACE A
GENERATIONAL
CATASTROPHE.’
ANTÓNIO GUTERRES,
U.N. Secretary-General, in an Aug. 4 video address on
the “untold human potential” that could be lost because of
coronavirus-related school closures around the world
‘Even the
very worst
among us
deserves
to be fairly
tried and
lawfully
punished.’
O. ROGERIEE THOMPSON,
federal appeals-court
judge, in a July 31 ruling
that tossed out the death
sentence facing Boston
Marathon bomber Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev and sent the case
back to a lower court for
resentencing
2 , 450
Age in years of a shipwreck that
opened on Aug. 3 as Greece’s
first underwater museum
GOOD NEWS
of the week
Three men missing
for almost three
days in the Pacific’s
Micronesia
archipelago were
found on a small
island Aug. 2 after
authorities spotted
their SOS written
in the sand
126
Number of items of Fyre Festival
merchandise and other “minor
assets” up for auction by the U.S.
Marshals Service, according to a
July 30 news release, three years
after the music event stranded
hundreds in the Bahamas;
proceeds will go to victims of
convicted ringleader Billy McFarland