"I just want to bust out crying": Evictions put strain on tenants and law enforcement
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San Antonio, Texas — It's a quiet morning, but it's about to get loud. Even with a federal ban, evictions have been allowed to continue in San Antonio — but there are fewer constables to do the emotional and often chaotic job of telling families to leave their homes.
"It's a lot more sensitive and dangerous because people are stressed out," said Bexar County Deputy Laura Valencia. On the day CBS News followed Valencia and her team, Bexar County constables were evicting a tenant who may be armed.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.