Tuesday, November 5, 2019

America is failing

On Friday night, an attacker [in Milwaukee] allegedly told Mahud Villalaz to “go back to your country" and threw acid, giving Villalaz second-degree burns. [Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett] said the president’s rhetoric on immigration is used to justify violence against Hispanic people, CNN reported.

"My concern is that more and more people feel that because the president is saying it that this is OK. It's not OK, it's horrible," Barrett said, according to CNN.

"We know what's happening. Everybody knows what's happening. It's because the president is talking about it on a daily basis that people feel that they have license to go after Hispanic people, and it's wrong," Barrett said.

He said in a media availability recording obtained by The Hill said he can't directly connect this incident to Trump because he doesn't know what was on the attacker's mind. But he called the incident "a manifestation of that anger" toward immigrants.

"This anger towards people from other countries is being fed by our president and by his followers," he said in the recording.

[...]

Villalaz, 42, a welder, is a U.S. citizen originally from Peru. He told local TV station WISN that the argument started over parking.

  The Hill
And the guy carries acid around with him just in case he has an argument?

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