Time - USA (2020-08-17)

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

SOURCES: NPR, THE GUARDIAN, AP, THE NEW YORK TIMES

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