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Heartbreaking, gutting testimony from @ajcorchado talking about El Paso hate crime. Says for immigrants like his family, “El Paso was a mystical place, it was our Ellis Island.”
After the shooting he thought “What the fuck, America? What does it take to be American?”
After the shooting he thought “What the fuck, America? What does it take to be American?”
Powerful words from @LATBermudez:
“It’s been a consistent measured drum beat of violence coming straight from the White House that felt like a turning point didn’t feel peripheral, it felt very present coming from the commander in chief of this country.”
“It’s been a consistent measured drum beat of violence coming straight from the White House that felt like a turning point didn’t feel peripheral, it felt very present coming from the commander in chief of this country.”
The shooting was a moment of reckoning, she said. “Folks originally thought this whole thing was about immigrants. But a shooter is not going to come in and ask for my papers or to listen for my accent. It provoked an Intense sense of terror.”
