Bodycam video shows police officer husband of elementary teacher shot in Uvalde being held back from apparently trying to rescue her amid mass killing



Bodycam video shows the police officer husband of a teacher shot at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, being held back from apparently trying to rescue her amid the mass killing at the school in May.

Fox News published a clip showing Ruben Ruiz — his gun drawn — making his way past other law enforcement personnel outside a classroom.

At that point, a voice is heard calling out to "Ruben" in an apparent effort to get him to stop.

"She said she’s shot, Tony," Ruiz tells another law enforcement official, Fox News said. The video shows a law enforcement official placing his hand on Ruiz's shoulder and directing him back down the hallway and away from the classroom.

What's the rest of the story?

TheBlaze reported last month that Eva Mireles — Ruiz's wife and a teacher who was fatally shot — called Ruiz and told him she was dying. But when Ruiz tried to rescue her, he was detained, his gun was taken, and he was removed from the scene, according to Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, NBC News reported.

Mireles, who taught 4th graders, was one of two adults killed in the massacre, along with 19 children. Ruiz is an Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District officer, the network added.

McCraw — who spoke during a Texas Senate hearing in June regarding the police response to the massacre — described what Mireles said to her husband and what happened to him when he tried to take action, the network said.

“We got an officer, Officer Ruiz, whose wife had called him and said she [had] been shot, and she’s dying,” McCraw said, according to video of the hearing. “What happened to him was he tried to move forward into the hallway ... he was detained, and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene.”

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McCraw did not say which agency had removed Ruiz from school grounds, KWTX-TV reported.

'I keep telling myself that this isn’t real'

Adalynn Ruiz, the couple's daughter, penned a tribute to her late mother on Facebook.

"Mom, you are a hero. I keep telling myself that this isn’t real. I just want to hear your voice," she wrote, adding that “I want everything back. I want you to come back to me mom. I miss you more than words can explain."

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Mass killing at Colorado birthday party leaves 6 dead



A suspect opened fire at a Colorado birthday party on Sunday, killing at least six people before turning the gun on himself.

What are the details?

The suspect, whom authorities have yet to publicly identify , reportedly opened fire at a Colorado Springs birthday party, killing six adults. Children who were attending the party witnessed the killing spree.

He then was said to have fatally shot himself.

According to a Monday report from the Associated Press, the suspect is believed to have been the boyfriend of a female victim at the party.

The birthday party was for one of the people who was killed, the outlet noted.

Neighbor Yenifer Reyes said that she heard the gunshots and thought they were thunder.

"Then I started hearing sirens," she added.

She also recalled police ushering children who were "crying hysterically" from the home.

Authorities have yet to divulge the identities of the victims at the time of this reporting and stated that a motive was not immediately known.

The investigation is ongoing.

What else?

Colorado Springs Police Chief Vince Niski expressed his condolences in a statement on the incident.

"My heart breaks for the families who have lost someone they love and for the children who have lost their parents," his statement read.

Niski added, "Words fall short to describe the tragedy that took place this morning. As the chief of police, as a husband, as a father, as a grandfather, as a member of this community, my heart breaks for the families who have lost someone they love and for the children who have lost their parents. From the officers who responded to the shooting to the investigators still on scene, we are all left incredibly shaken."

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) also tweeted about the incident, writing, “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims of today's tragic act of violence in Colorado Springs."

"The tragic shooting in Colorado Springs is devastating, especially as many of us are spending the day celebrating the women in our lives who have made us the people we are today," he continued. "Multiple lives were taken today by this terrible act of violence. Families torn apart, and at a birthday party no less."

Polis concluded, "My deepest condolences and prayers are with the victims, their families, and everyone else impacted by this tragedy."

My thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims of today’s tragic act of violence in Colorado Springs. https://t.co/fp1wtNRloO

— Governor Jared Polis (@GovofCO) 1620594903.0

Twitter says calling Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa a 'white Christian terrorist' doesn't violate its misinformation policies



Twitter told Newsweek that characterizing accused mass killer Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa as a "white Christian terrorist" doesn't violate its misinformation policies — even though Alissa is from Syria and has been identified as Muslim.

What are the details?

Authorities charged Alissa, 21, with 10 counts of first-degree murder in connection with Monday's mass killing in King Sooper's grocery store in Boulder, Colorado.

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But prior to the suspect's identity being made public, the magazine said numerous Twitter users assumed the suspect was white and characterized the massacre as another example of racial injustice and white supremacy in the United States, as it followed the mass killing in Atlanta by a white male.

And lo and behold, that "white supremacy" narrative blew up in Twitter users' faces when authorities revealed that Alissa's family emigrated to the U.S. from Syria and that his own brother said in the past Alissa was bullied for being Muslim, CNN reported.

More from Newsweek:

Some users have deleted their tweets calling him white. Others have defended their claims, saying they were based on Alissa's skin color rather than his ethnicity.

Newsweek put the misleading posts to Twitter. The social network has been accused of left-wing bias and anti-Christian prejudice in the way it polices speech on its platform.

In January, for example, Twitter locked the account of The Catholic Review, apparently for tweeting an article that described assistant Health and Human Services Secretary Rachel Levine as "a biological man identifying as a transgender woman."

A Twitter spokeswoman said the "white Christian terrorist" tweet and other false posts did not violate its rules.

"The Tweets referenced are not in violation of the Twitter Rules," the spokesperson noted, according to the magazine. "We will not take action on every instance of misinformation. Currently, our misinformation rules cover COVID-19 misinformation, synthetic and manipulated media, and civic integrity."

Newsweek said Twitter's policies on synthetic and manipulated media include deepfake videos, and its civic integrity policies forbid things like "false claims that the 2020 U.S. election was rigged."

What tweets did Newsweek send to Twitter?

The magazine said it sent Twitter four tweets for review:

A white Christian Terrorist killed ten innocent people with a gun in a grocery store, Colrado, USA.@BBCWorld… https://t.co/ZpXTkdOYPv
— SoHaiL SaNi🇵🇰🇹🇷🇵🇸 (@SoHaiL SaNi🇵🇰🇹🇷🇵🇸)1616520486.0

A second courtesy of outspoken, far-left actress Rosanna Arquette:

Call it what it is ..White supremacist domestic terrorism
— ✌🏼rosanna arquette (@✌🏼rosanna arquette)1616456439.0

Newsweek also said it sent a tweet from former Democratic Virginia congressional nominee Qasim Rashid:

Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old black child. Police shot him in 1.7 sec & let him suffer in agonizing pain for 4 min &… https://t.co/iPWTv0RP9k
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. قاسم رشید (@Qasim Rashid, Esq. قاسم رشید)1616510150.0

And finally a tweet from Michael Harriot, senior writer at The Root:

Pointing out how white suspects get the benefit of the doubt without being stopped, frisked, beaten, shot or killed… https://t.co/npJJO2LzRo
— Michael Harriot (@Michael Harriot)1616443737.0

Newsweek said it reached out to the aforementioned tweet authors for comment.

More from the magazine:

On Monday, Meena Harris, the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris, published a now-deleted tweet blaming white men for the Boulder, Colorado shooting. It had over 6,500 retweets and 35,700 likes before she deleted it.

"The Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago. Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country," Harris wrote in the tweet.

Soon after deleting her tweet, Harris wrote on Twitter, "I deleted a previous tweet about the suspect in the Boulder shooting. I made an assumption based on his being taken into custody alive and the fact that the majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are carried out by white men."

Newsweek added that whites have "accounted for for 66 of 121 mass shootings that have occurred from 1982 to 2021, according to the German statistical data firm Statista."

Anything else?

Social media was filled with cutting replies to those who made assumptions about the suspect before the facts came in. Here are a few of them:

Race-baiting blue checks immediately assumed that the Boulder shooter was white. Turns out he’s Middle Eastern. W… https://t.co/ZpbzwxWjBy
— Greg Price (@Greg Price)1616514819.0
This narrative really isn't going to age well. https://t.co/8qX8to0p2K
— Caleb Hull (@Caleb Hull)1616515558.0

Georgia mass killer said shooting had nothing to do with race. Trevor Noah says it does — but the suspect just doesn't realize it yet.



Comedy Central host Trevor Noah said this week that Georgia's spa mass murder was motivated by race — despite the accused Georgia mass killer himself reportedly saying that he targeted the spas over his sex addiction and not the race of their workers.

On Wednesday, Blaze Media reported that 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long — the suspect in a mass killing that took the lives of at least eight people at Atlanta-area spas — said, according to authorities, that he carried out the murders because of his "addiction to sex."

What are the details?

On Wednesday's episode of "The Daily Show," Noah said that it's obvious to him that someone who murders six Asian women is racist.

"What's been sad about the story is not just the loss of life but all the auxiliary things that have been happening around the story," Noah began. "Like, one of the first things that's been the most frustrating for me is seeing the shooter say, 'Oh, it wasn't racism, it was sex addiction.' First of all, f*** you, man. You killed six Asian people. Specifically. You went there. If there's anyone who's racist, it's a motherf***er who kills six Asian women. Your murders speak louder than your words."

Noah continued and insisted that anti-Asian sentiment is behind this and other attacks against members of the American-Asian community since COVID-19 originated in Wuhan, China.

“Six Asian women were killed!" he continued. “And you know, in a way, what makes it even more painful is that we saw it coming. We see these things happening. People have been warning. People in the Asian community have been tweeting, saying, 'Please, help us. We're getting punched in the streets, we're getting slurs written on our doors, we're getting people coming up to us saying thanks for COVID, thanks for spoiling the world.' We've seen this happening. And while we're fighting for it, there are many people who have been like, 'Oh, stop being so woke and so dramatic. Kung flu, hahaha. It's just a joke.' Yeah, it's a joke that has come at one of the most tense times in human history. You knew that something like this could happen."

'Who could have predicted this tragedy?'

He noted that the deadly attack wasn't all that surprising.

Noah added, "This guy didn't go and kill these women by mistake. He knew what he was doing. And it's so frustrating to see this keep happening in America over and over again. America sees things coming, it knows something is gonna happen, but it does nothing to stop it. But then it's all-in on saying, 'Oh, it's so tragic, who could have predicted this tragedy?' Anyone who was looking at it could. Why are people so invested in solving the symptoms instead of the cause? America does this time and time again — a country that wants to fight the symptoms and not the underlying conditions that cause those symptoms to take effect. Racism, misogyny, gun violence, and mental illness — and honestly, this incident might have been all of those things combined."

He concluded, "Whatever you do, please, don't tell me that this thing had nothing to do with race. Even if the shooter says that — he thinks it has to do with his sex addiction — you can't disconnect his violence from the racial stereotypes that people attach to Asian women. This guy blamed a specific race of people for his problems and then murdered them because of it. If that's not racism then the word has no meaning."

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