A Diner Confronted Ted Cruz About The Uvalde Shooting At A Sushi Restaurant
An activist confronted Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz at a Houston sushi restaurant Friday night to grill him about his inaction on gun reform and his attendance at the NRA convention, just days after a shooter went on a horrific rampage at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers.
In video clips of the encounter shared on social media, a man, who is being escorted out of the restaurant by Cruz's detail, is heard yelling at the senator, "But why does this keep happening? And why did you come here to the convention to take blood money? Why? When 19 children died. Nineteen children died. That’s on your hands. That is on your hands. Ted Cruz, that’s on your hands!”
That man was Benjamin Hernandez, a board member for liberal advocacy group Indivisible Houston, who happened to be dining with his wife at Uptown Sushi on Friday night when Cruz walked in through the door.
“I feel like it was fate,” Hernandez told BuzzFeed News in an interview Saturday.
The 39-year-old Houston native, who runs a digital agency, had spent the entire day livestreaming the anti–gun violence protest outside the NRA convention, where Cruz was among the high-profile speakers, alongside former president Donald Trump, who didn't pull out of the event despite the Uvalde shooting tragedy.
Hernandez said he and his wife love the Suito Roll at Uptown Sushi, so they decided to dine there that night.
"I look over, and guess who comes walking through that door,” he said.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emersonmalone/ted-cruz-confronted-restaurant-uvalde-nra
Rafaelito Cruz does not deserve to feel safe anywhere, since the rest of us can't
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