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The Guardian - US
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Gloria Oladipo, Edward Helmore and agencies

‘Too much fear, too much grief’: Biden visits Uvalde amid scrutiny of police response to shooting

President Joe Biden embraces Mandy Gutierrez, principal at Robb elementary school, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, as first lady Jill Biden stands next to him, in Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday.
President Joe Biden embraces Mandy Gutierrez, principal at Robb elementary school, as first lady Jill Biden stands next to him, in Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Joe Biden lamented “too much violence, too much fear, too much grief” after the latest US mass shooting as he prepared to visit Uvalde, where police face intensifying scrutiny for waiting outside the classroom where a teenage gunman with an assault rifle killed 19 children and two teachers.

The US president and first lady, Jill Biden, arrived in Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday morning, both dressed in black. They visited the informal memorial of flowers and notes that has accumulated outside Robb elementary school, where the carnage took place last Tuesday.

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