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Ignored Warnings: Inside Abby Zwerner Trial — How a 6-Year-Old’s Shooting Became a Case About Adult Failure-WEEK IN REVIEW

Ignored Warnings: Inside Abby Zwerner Trial — How a 6-Year-Old’s Shooting Became a Case About Adult Failure-WEEK IN REVIEW

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 A six-year-old walked into class with a 9mm pistol.
His teacher, Abby Zwerner, left on a stretcher — shot in the chest and hand while protecting her students.

Now, in a Virginia courtroom, that day is being dissected hour by hour. The $40 million civil trial of Abby Zwerner v. Ebony Parker has become a national referendum on what happens when warnings are ignored — when fear, policy, and denial outweigh basic human instinct.

In this episode, Tony Brueski takes you inside the courtroom where teachers, reading specialists, and administrators are testifying about the morning of January 6, 2023 — the morning they say they begged Assistant Principal Ebony Parker to act.
Four separate warnings.
Four opportunities to stop a six-year-old from shooting his teacher.
And nothing was done.

You’ll hear how Zwerner’s lawyers are methodically walking the jury through every missed red flag — from the teacher who saw the boy shove something heavy into his backpack to the reading specialist who asked to search it and was told, “His pockets are too small.”

The defense says it was unforeseeable — that no one could’ve predicted a child that young pulling the trigger.
The testimony says otherwise.

This isn’t just about one classroom.
It’s about every system that hears the alarm and still stands still.
And it’s about a teacher who’s forcing the system to finally answer for its silence.

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