Posted on Nov 6, 2023
Hate crimes against Latinos see 'significant increase'
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Deborah Anchondo likes when her nephew plays with his carts at the family’s auto shop in El Paso, Texas.
“He is innocent, very handsome, a happy child — a miracle that he was saved,” she said in an interview with Noticias Telemundo.
What she doesn’t like is when, in children’s games, the little boy takes a toy gun and wants to shoot the bad guys.
The 43-year-old woman’s voice still quivers when she talks about Aug. 3, 2019, the day Andre and Jordan Anchondo, her brother and sister-in-law, were shot to death while protecting their son, who was then only 2 months old, in a racist rampage against Latinos in a Walmart shopping center in El Paso that left 23 people dead and over two dozen injured.
“Before that, the only thing that had happened to me was that my car stereo was stolen in 1998. Now we are also victims of that resentment, that hatred that completely changed El Paso,” said Anchondo, who helps raise Paul Gilbert, his brother’s son.
“He is innocent, very handsome, a happy child — a miracle that he was saved,” she said in an interview with Noticias Telemundo.
What she doesn’t like is when, in children’s games, the little boy takes a toy gun and wants to shoot the bad guys.
The 43-year-old woman’s voice still quivers when she talks about Aug. 3, 2019, the day Andre and Jordan Anchondo, her brother and sister-in-law, were shot to death while protecting their son, who was then only 2 months old, in a racist rampage against Latinos in a Walmart shopping center in El Paso that left 23 people dead and over two dozen injured.
“Before that, the only thing that had happened to me was that my car stereo was stolen in 1998. Now we are also victims of that resentment, that hatred that completely changed El Paso,” said Anchondo, who helps raise Paul Gilbert, his brother’s son.
Hate crimes against Latinos see 'significant increase'
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..."The 43-year-old woman’s voice still quivers when she talks about Aug. 3, 2019, the day Andre and Jordan Anchondo, her brother and sister-in-law, were shot to death while protecting their son, who was then was only 2 months old, in the racist rampage against Latinos in a Walmart shopping center in El Paso that left 23 people dead and over two dozen injured.
“Before that, the only thing that had happened to me was that my car stereo was stolen in 1998. Now we are also victims of that resentment, that hatred that completely changed El Paso,” said Anchondo, who helps raise Paul Gilbert, his brother’s son.
As a family reels from the profound repercussions of the 2019 racist mass shooting, an investigation by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University found that in 2022 the 10 largest cities in the United States registered an average increase of 22% in hate crimes reported, totaling 1,889 cases.
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“2021 was also a record year. In 2022, hate "...
..."The 43-year-old woman’s voice still quivers when she talks about Aug. 3, 2019, the day Andre and Jordan Anchondo, her brother and sister-in-law, were shot to death while protecting their son, who was then was only 2 months old, in the racist rampage against Latinos in a Walmart shopping center in El Paso that left 23 people dead and over two dozen injured.
“Before that, the only thing that had happened to me was that my car stereo was stolen in 1998. Now we are also victims of that resentment, that hatred that completely changed El Paso,” said Anchondo, who helps raise Paul Gilbert, his brother’s son.
As a family reels from the profound repercussions of the 2019 racist mass shooting, an investigation by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University found that in 2022 the 10 largest cities in the United States registered an average increase of 22% in hate crimes reported, totaling 1,889 cases.
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