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Elk Grove News Minute – As Emmett Till’s mother said, “Let them see what I’ve seen”

D.A. Gougherty

Apr 2, 2023

This week saw another school shooting that killed six people, three of them 9-year-olds, in Nashville. Coincidentally, Washington Post had a lengthy and somewhat graphic – not gory – animation of what happens when AR 15 bullets shred a body.

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Below is the video of the Washington Post’s animation. The Washinton Post’s companion story series American Icon referenced in this podcast can be read here.

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Gov. Newsom flogs Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen for her fair housing debacle at bill signing ceremony

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