Buffalo shooting latest example of targeted racial violence

Democratic Florida state Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, who is gay and of Peruvian descent, immediately had flashbacks to the Pulse nightclub shooting that left 49 victims dead. The shooter targeted gay patrons in what was a largely Latino crowd.

Experiencing violence of any kind is obviously traumatic, but the impact of targeted violence like this has ripples on a broader level. Hate crime laws are on the books in recognition of that reality. The effect of events like these is “you’ve increased the vulnerability of everyone who looks like the target,” said Jeannine Bell, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. “This is a different type of crime because it impacts not just the victims, but also the community.

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Where was this article for the NY Subway shooting and Waukesha massacre where both men were racially motivated to kill as many white people as they could?

DeeDub67 How do you think this topic propagandized by other countries about the US? afireinside35 Justifiable?

Those parade attendees in Wisconsin understand the angst.

Heard all this rhetoric before. Nothing will change, best to just get on and prepare for the best one.

That's why they arming themselves in record numbers, right?

“There’s a lack of acknowledgment that these problems are persistent, are embedded into systems and cost lives,” said Malcolm Graham, whose sister was among nine people killed by an avowed white supremacist in a 2015 South Carolina church shooting.

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