11-year-old who survived Uvalde shooting to testify before House panel

[Jilly_in_VA]

Miah Cerrillo, an 11-year-old who smeared herself with her murdered friend's blood and played dead to survive the mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school will testify about gun violence before the House Oversight and Reform Committee next week.

The fourth-grader is likely to recount her harrowing tale which she shared on CNN last week: how she and her classmates were watching the Disney movie "Lilo and Stitch" when the shooter entered the building and ultimately killed 19 students and two adults.

Miah suffered fragment wounds, but she and a friend managed to get a teacher's cellphone and call for help. She cried during the CNN interview, saying that she didn't understand why police didn't go inside and rescue them.

She is one of nine witnesses who will testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee at 10 a.m. Wednesday about the mass killings last week at Robb Elementary in Uvalde and the May 14 racially motivated massacre of 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket in a Black neighborhood.

The other witnesses include victims' parents, a pediatrician, gun safety advocates, president of a teachers' union and the Buffalo police commissioner. Those scheduled to testify include Zeneta Everhart, mother of Buffalo shooting victim Zaire Goodman, and Felix and Kimberly Rubio whose daughter, Lexi, was killed during the Uvalde slaughter.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/03/miah-cerrillo-uvalde-buffalo-survivors-testify-house/7503143001/
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And RepubliKKKans still vote against these bills. God knows what they will ask her, or even if they will show up to this hearing!

[Probatim]

1. God knows what they'll ask them?

How much victim blaming will they receive? That's the MO of these SOBs.

Why didn't you hit him with a chair? Why didn't you jump through the window? What are you? Some kind of child?

I'm sure the media will paint the republicans as clear eyed sensible folks who were "just trying to get to the bottom of why a 10 year old didn't kill the shooter with her bare hands".

[Just_Vote_Dem]

5. Agree totally.

Hope the Dems on the committee are ready to protect this child from the GQP garbage.

[AZLD4Candidate]

26. How can we believe you, little girl? Aren't you just a paid crisis actor?

Why do you hate our freedoms and the Constitution?

That sounds like a Mexican. Are you an anchor baby?

If this shooting actually happened, why aren't you dead?

Don't you realize there are good gun owners out there that will lose if we listen to you?

You knew the risks of "schooling" and "learning." You made your choice to go to that school. Why do we need to suffer for you lack of planning?

Which of your leftist parents are forcing you to say this anti-American drivel?

Prove to us your expertise in mass shootings. You're just a kid.

Why didn't you fight back?

Why are you here? Is it because you are woke and trying to destroy our country?

[Bettie]

2. Poor kid, Republicans will be awful to her

you know they will.

[luvtheGWN]

14. She will have nightmares for years.

And she will need therapy for years too. She is very brave to attend the hearing -- and that will also add to her nightmares if the Repubs show no sympathy toward her.

[crickets]

21. You read my mind.

I dearly hope that after this, Miah Cerrillo never has to go through telling her story again until and unless she wants to, and that she is given all the therapy she needs for as long as she needs it. This is my hope for every single one of the children who has been through the trauma of a school shooting, or any violence like it.

My biggest hope of all is that we finally end the nightmare of mass shootings, especially at schools. Slim hope, but giving up is not an option.

[Bettie]

22. Yes to all of this

but remember, most health insurance only covers a set number of mental health visits per year. Probably not nearly enough for this girl to process everything she's been through.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[Walleye]

4. Republican GOP Congressmen, learn what courage is from an 11-year-old girl

This little girl has more courage than all of these loudmouth sanctimonious mansplainers put together. Fucking lily-livered yellow-bellies 🐥

[Gore1FL]

6. My first thought is Jim Jordan is going to try to gaslight her. nt

[Traildogbob]

11. OMG

you read my mind. And the two gun humping female howling Monkey’s. They will drill her about illegal immigrant status and stealing jobs from whites. And Gaetz will want her phone number and how she likes Florida.

[SouthBayDem]

15. Thankfully none of them are on this committee

https://oversight.house.gov/members

[Traildogbob]

20. They should all

Not be on any committee. But I am sure any GQP will heartlessly attack that poor little girl. She has enough to cope with the rest of her life, without those soulless gun humpers blaming her for the lives lost. Anybody but Mayor “sick son of a bitch” and other cowboy hat wearing cowards on scene. But she does have a life, unlike her classmates. For now, she has as likely a chance of dying from gunfire as active military of cops. Mayor “Sick son of a Bitch” is who should be in front of the committee.

[Bettie]

25. Gym Jordan is on this committee

Glenn Grothman is also pretty awful, though not as theatrical as old Gym.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Will it be televised?

[In It to Win It]

9. I kinda hope not for the sake of the child. They always use the cameras an opportunity

to campaign and say the stupidest outlandish thing.

[BootinUp]

8. very brave of her. nt

[StarryNite]

10. She is sooo brave.

[Marcuse]

12. The Capitol Police will keep eyes and a camera on Gaetz.

[mcar]

13. Please tell me Gym Jordan and his ilk won't be questioning

this amazing girl.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

16. They'll demand proof she's actually a girl

[gratuitous]

17. A lot of people are way ahead of me

"Who are the Republicans on that committee?" I wondered.

See them all here.

Yep, there's Jim Jordan, Virginia Foxx, Jody Hice and Glenn Grothman and 14 others. They won't be able to resist the need to clown up the proceedings.

[housecat]

24. Jordan just waves his hands screaming "look at me! look at me!" too damn much

[Rebl2]

18. I know

she is testifying, but think they should ask her to tell her story and don’t allow them to question her unless she is open to it.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Will Louie, Louie, Louie I Lie! be there?

[housecat]

23. So an 11-year-old has her shit together, but no cops? Unbelievable.