Walmart pulls offensive tshirt and issues an apology

The father of an Uvalde school shooting victim called out Walmart earlier this month for offensive t-shirts, prompting the retail giant to issue an apology.

Texas man Brett Cross shared a photo of the shirt, which is blue and white with an outline of the state of Texas. The shirt reads “Where the heck is Uvalde, Texas?”

“Oh you know, that town by San Antonio where 19 kids and two teachers were killed,” Cross captioned the photo on X (formerly Twitter).

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"How do you make a shirt saying where the heck is Uvalde, when less than two years ago, the third largest school massacre happened?" he pondered. "Intent doesn’t equal impact. It doesn’t matter if Walmart thought it was a fun/cute shirt. What matters is you are downplaying my son’s death, his teachers' and classmates' death."

He stressed that society has become desensitized to school shootings because they happen so often and shirts like these make it to the sales floor because they make money.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/18/uvalde-texas-walmart-shirt-criticism/73368450007/