A heavy police presence accompanied students who returned to classes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, early Wednesday. "This is a picture of education in fear in this country," said David Hogg, who has become a leading voice in the students' movement to control assault weapons. Some photos of the scene outside the school Wednesday:
The first day back at school after a shooting, boxed in on all sides by roaring politics and news coverage, plays out differently each time. When Columbine High School let students back four months after the 1999 massacre, parents formed a human chain around the school to keep reporters at a distance. When Sandy Hook's children came back, they had Shelley.
The voices from this dark corner of the Internet quickly coalesced around a plan of attack: Use details gleaned from news reports and other sources to push false information about one of America's deadliest school shootings.
Meadow Pollack was a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with plans to go to college when she was shot to death in the hallway on Feb. 14. Her father, Andrew Pollack, says that after Meadow was shot the first time, she crawled over to throw her arms around a cowering freshman student, before the shooter repeatedly shot her in the back, killing both girls.
