Texas law enforcement wrapped up a press conference on the Robb Elementary School massacre Thursday without taking a single question from Spanish-language media.
Speakers of Spanish make up around 30% of Texas’s population, according to US Census Data. In Uvalde County, where the mass shooting took place, half of families speak a language other than English at home — largely Spanish, with Latinos making up just under 90% of the student body at the elementary school.
At Thursday’s press conference, reporters with Spanish-language media pleaded for answers “en Español,” the language spoken by around 8 million Texans and more than 41 million Americans.
But despite being asked to “please” address the media in Spanish, Victor Escalon, a regional director with the Texas Department of Public Safety, walked away from the podium without responding.
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