[DV_listserv] DV Related News You May Have Missed: Houson officer killed responding to domestic violence

[Domestic Violence issues]

Headline: Houston police chief criticizes McConnell and Senate Republicans over guns: ‘Whose side are you on?’
A Houston police officer was killed last week when he responded to a DV call; he was shot by the abuser. The Houston police chief responses about gun reform and domestic violence.

"I don't want to hear about how much they support law enforcement," Acevedo said. "I don't want to hear about how much they care about lives and the sanctity of lives yet, we all know in law enforcement that one of the biggest reasons that the Senate and Mitch McConnell and (Texas Sens.) John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the House and getting the Violence Against Women's Act (passed) is because the NRA doesn't like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends. And who killed our sergeant? A boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. So you're either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you're here for the (National Rifle Association)."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/politics/houston-police-chief-senate-republicans-gun-violence-vawa/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-12-10T01%3A04%3A09&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1X3_j9NEB55iCQS3kMbMe8PSMwVnyJIc5d8k2E9Yw_cXi-5LONAKV8t-I

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