Maite Yuleana Rodriguez, one of the 19 students killed in the May mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, always wore green, high-top Converse sneakers.
Matthew McConaughey, an Uvalde native, brought a similar pair of sneakers with him to the White House on Tuesday, using them as a pointed call to action to leaders in Washington to “make these lives matter” after the horrific shooting by passing new gun laws.
