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A Man Who Attacked An Asian Family Inside A Sam's Club Because He Blamed Them For COVID Was Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison
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A man in Texas was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to attacking an Asian family he blamed for COVID in the early days of the pandemic.
Jose Gomez, 21, violently attacked an Asian family of three at a Sam's Club in Midland, Texas, on March 14, 2020, perceiving them as a "threat" because he assumed they were Chinese, "from the country who started spreading that disease around," the Department of Justice said in a statement.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate crime in February.
Gomez admitted in his plea that he had followed the dad and his children, aged 6 and 2, around the store. He then grabbed a serrated steak knife on sale, bending the blade so that the sharp part faced outward, and punched the father in the face.
Gomez then got an eight-inch knife from the store and slashed the 6-year-old's face. The blade entered close to his right eye, split his right ear, and cut right around the back of his skull, prosecutors said.
Gomez said in his plea that he wanted to kill the 6-year-old boy and that he attacked a white store employee who was preventing him from doing so.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-attacked-asian-family-inside-170523699.html
Probably a Trump supporter too?!!
A man in Texas was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to attacking an Asian family he blamed for COVID in the early days of the pandemic.
Jose Gomez, 21, violently attacked an Asian family of three at a Sam's Club in Midland, Texas, on March 14, 2020, perceiving them as a "threat" because he assumed they were Chinese, "from the country who started spreading that disease around," the Department of Justice said in a statement.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate crime in February.
Gomez admitted in his plea that he had followed the dad and his children, aged 6 and 2, around the store. He then grabbed a serrated steak knife on sale, bending the blade so that the sharp part faced outward, and punched the father in the face.
Gomez then got an eight-inch knife from the store and slashed the 6-year-old's face. The blade entered close to his right eye, split his right ear, and cut right around the back of his skull, prosecutors said.
Gomez said in his plea that he wanted to kill the 6-year-old boy and that he attacked a white store employee who was preventing him from doing so.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-attacked-asian-family-inside-170523699.html
