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Emma González hid in a darkened auditorium at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on 14 February 2018 while Nikolas Cruz was firing on her classmates, eventually killing 17 people. Her name and face became nationally known four days later, after she delivered an angry speech at a gun control rally in Fort Lauderdale: On 24 March 2018, González took part in the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., facing the assembled crowd from a stage — mostly silently — for 6 minutes and 20 seconds, representing the amount of time it took the Parkland shooter to kill seventeen people: Shortly after the March for Our Lives rally, still and animated images were heavily circulated via social media, purportedly showing Emma Gonzalez ripping up a copy of the U.S. Constitution: As multiple sources pointed out, however, these images were digitally manipulated versions of ones taken in conjunction with a TeenVogue op-ed by Emma González about gun control, the originals of which showed González tearing up shooting range targets, not a copy of the U.S. Constitution:
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