Greg Abbott Slammed for Tweet After Mass Shooting: ‘No Shame’

Texas Governor Greg Abbott was grilled on social media for a lighthearted publish within the wake of a grisly mass capturing in his state.

A minimum of 5 folks have been killed in a Friday capturing at a property in Cleveland, Texas, a metropolis positioned roughly 55 miles northeast of Houston. Three of the victims have been feminine, with the opposite two being male, together with an eight-year-old boy. A minimum of three different minors have been discovered unhurt by responding officers, together with two youngsters positioned beneath two of the feminine victims.

The suspect, 39-year-old Francisco Oropeza, stays at giant after the incident, with a neighborhood FBI subject workplace aiding within the search and a choose issuing an arrest warrant with a $5 million bond. Police reported that Oropeza allegedly carried out the capturing utilizing an AR-15-style rifle after the victims, who have been his neighbors, requested him to cease firing a gun in his entrance yard as a result of it was holding a child awake.

As of Saturday night, a number of hours after the information in regards to the grisly capturing emerged, Governor Abbott, a Republican, had but to challenge a public assertion in regards to the state of affairs. At roughly 12:30 p.m. native time, Abbott’s official Twitter account as an alternative shared a lighthearted publish that includes a photograph of his canine, declaring, “All smiles for the weekend.”

Newsweek reached out to Abbott’s workplace by way of e-mail for remark.

Abbott’s lack of a response to the tragedy unfolding in Cleveland was swiftly denounced by many on Twitter, together with Brett Cross, a mum or dad who misplaced his baby on the Robb Elementary Faculty capturing in Uvalde final Could.

“All smiles this weekend? No point out of the 5 that have been murdered for asking a person to stop capturing so they may sleep?” Cross wrote. “The identical rattling smiles after Uvalde. The identical rattling smiles after Santa Fe. The identical rattling smiles after El Paso X2. F*** you and your smile.”

The Texas Sign, which touts itself because the “largest progressive media firm” within the Lone Star State, gave a succinct response to Abbott’s publish, alongside a hyperlink to a different of their tweets in regards to the state of affairs: “No disgrace.”

“Most Texans woke as much as the information of the horrific killing of an harmless household by a deadly AR-15,” the Sign’s official account wrote. “Greg Abbott is tweeting about having an awesome weekend. He signed permitless carry into legislation final session. We deserve higher than Texas Republicans.”

“5 extra harmless folks lifeless due to gun violence,” one other person, Marlene Robertson, wrote. “I suppose that is Greg Abbott’s method of thanking them for his or her sacrifice.”

“And Greg Abbott responds— with a photograph of his canine,” political scientist Norman Ornstein wrote. “Professional-death governor of Texas.”