Ep. 1853 - Shocking Body Cam Footage Reveals How Bad Public Schools Are Now

October 8, 2026

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The body camera footage from the January 2023 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, is difficult to watch not just because a six-year-old boy shot his teacher, Abby Zwerner, in the chest with a 9mm handgun he stole from his mother's purse. What makes the footage remarkable is how everyone around him responds. A reading specialist holds the child gently, asks if he hurt himself when he fired the gun, and tells police he's on a "modified schedule." The boy, meanwhile, curses at officers, threatens them, and announces that he stole the gun from his mother and doesn't care if he goes to jail. The disconnect between what this child just did and how the adults treat him is so vast that, as Matt Walsh puts it, "if you didn't know the context, you would assume that he got in trouble for throwing a paper airplane."

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: [No Guest – Solo Host Commentary]**
2 (00:56) **The Newport News Shooting Incident**
3 (05:05) **Critique of the School’s Response**
4 (07:52) **The Dilemma of the Dangerous Child**
5 (10:01) **Background of the Child’s Parents**
6 (11:41) **The Letarian Milton Case Study**
7 (15:46) **Consequences and Systemic Failure**

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Guests on this episode

Matt Walsh

Show Notes

Newly released body cam footage shows the tragic reality teachers and students deal with in public schools.

Ep. 1853

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