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A man whose wife died in the Atlanta-area spa shootings last week told the news website Mundo Hispánico that officers handcuffed him for four hours and treated him like a suspect while refusing to tell him what had happened to his wife.
Mario González and Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33, who were married last year, were getting massages in separate rooms at Young's Asian Massage when gunshots rang out.
González told Mundo Hispánico that he took cover in his locked room, paralyzed with fear, hoping his wife would be OK.
"I did not open the door out of fear," González told the outlet.
Law-enforcement officers arrived shortly after the gunman left, and they handcuffed González, he told Mundo Hispánico.
González said he was kept like this for four hours while officers ignored his requests to be taken to his wife or to tell him whether she was alive or dead.
Alex Acosta, who works next door to the spa, told the Daily Mail that he came outside after the shooting and recognized González.
"Mario looked at me and he told me his wife was still inside. He told me to tell the police," Acosta said.
When Acosta's wife told an officer that González's wife had also been inside and that González wanted to know what had happened to her, the officer said they knew, Acosta said.
González told Mundo Hispánico that hours later the police told him his wife had died.
González suggested that his race may have played a role in the officers' treatment of him.
"Maybe because I'm Mexican, I don't know. Because the truth is they treated me badly," he told Mundo Hispánico.
González's niece, Jessica González, was more certain. "He's very upset and angry about that," she told the Daily Mail. "He was handcuffed for something he didn't do. I think it was a racial thing. He was the only one left in handcuffs."
The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office has been criticized over its handling of the shooting investigation. A spokesman, Capt. Jay Baker, was replaced after describing the suspect as having had "a really bad day."
It was later revealed that Baker had shared a picture of a T-shirt with anti-Asian messaging about the coronavirus outbreak, calling the novel coronavirus an "imported virus from Chy-na."
The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on González's remarks.
Yaun leaves behind a 13-year-old son from a previous relationship, and her and González's 8-month-old daughter.
González said he was worried about how he'd provide for his family without his wife. "What I need most right now is support," González told Mundo Hispánico.
A GoFundMe set up to raise money for Yaun's funeral had raised more than $100,000 as of Monday morning.
Trusting big pharma to be ethical is foolish. In the US the FDA is a revolving door and big pharma's lap dog. "Ethical Corporation" is an oxymoron. The US failed to control the virus as did the EU. They knew the RO number in 2019 and they new what delays and not wearing masks would do, They even feigned ignorance as to the effectiveness of masks and how far the droplets of a cough or sneeze would travel. When this started the public health people saw dollar signs. US politicians were doing insider trading while Italy was being decimated.
The Germans started the lie that the Astra Zenica vaccine causes blood clots. They based this lie on the fact that out of 1.6 million people who got the vaccine 7 developed blood clots. What they didn't tell you is that in the general population 120 people in 100,000 develop blood clots for various reasons. Germany is the creator of the big lie.
Germany is the country who gave us world war two and the holocaust. Not all the Nazis were executed at Neuremberg.
The EU in its corporate greed and incompetence has vaccinated less than 5% of it population while countries in the Middle East have more than 50% of their people vaccinated. Numbers don't lie but the filthy rich criminally elite ruling class does.
Pfizer is a multi-national company started by two Germans. It is the 64th largest company on the planet. The WHO knew the RO number of this virus long before it decimated Italy, They pretended not to know if masks worked or how far a sneeze would travel. They knew exactly how many deaths their delays would cause. Proof: Japan has had around 7000 deaths and the EU and the USA has had over 1 million. The world's ruling class has used this to transfer even more wealth from the bottom to the top. That's undeniable because that is exactly what happened.
This virus could have been nipped in the bud in 2019 when the CDC and the WHO knew how deadly and transmissible it was. Trump's lies about the virus such as, "It's a haox by the Democrats" "It will magically go away." "It's no worse than the flu." were probably not something he thought up on his own. Trump is a junior member of the global corporate criminal elite. He's kinda their stooge and errand boy much like other politicians and public servants who take their marching orders from the oligarchs, Idiot errand boys like Trump are easily manipulated.
The lazy and corrupt corporate media merely merely parroted and spread the COVID-19 narratives sent to them by the corporate criminal elite.
There is an upside. Most of the people who are dying from COVID at this point in time are depraved scum, aka Trumpers.
Are the vaccines safe? Probably they all are. Big pharma doesn't want to kill off its cash cows. Do masks work? Absolutely they do! What can we peasants do to make the best of this? We can continue to spread and reinforce Trump's big lies that the virus is a hoax, the liberals are behind the "plandemic", masks are a way to control people, and the vaccines are dangerous. 50% of Republicans will not get vaccinated. Let's see if we can get that number to 100%. Most Republicans are anti-maskers lets do what we can to keep them that way. If we help to push the Trump lies more and more Trumpanzees will get COVID and many of them will see and early grave. COVID-19 will continue to spread among the MAGAts. for years to come. and level off at 1000 deaths per day for years to come and spike during the cold and flu season while we humans have immunity. Short of spaying and neutering MAGAts this is a sensible strategy. Help them die by their own lies.
If you trust the filthy rich to be ethical and the corporate billionaires to care about humanity more than money and power I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale. Are you interested?
It's a fact that Jewish and Asian Americans are the most law abiding and contribute more good to this country than every other group. If OJ Simpson were Asian other others would not have cheered his acquittal.
Some bigotry is learned and some is genetic and some is a symptom of depravity. I think it is mostly a symptom of depravity.
We can place all the blame on Trump for this but that would be misguided. Trump supporters were depraved sub humans before Trump came down the political pike. If they were moral decent people they would have nominated John Kasich for their candidate. They didn't.
We need to do more than whine about this Trumpist depravity and we need to accept this one uncomfortable truth. Some people are simply no damn good and a waste of protoplasm.
There are people who resent Blacks and who fear Blacks. Some are hard core racists while others look at the crime data and falsely assume many Blacks are criminals and they want to avoid them. They may or may not be haters.
Bad people will only stop doing bad things if they know they will suffer severe repercussions. The man with the laundry in NYC has been plagued for months by teens and the cops have done nothing. In earlier times the cops would have turned a blind eye had that laundrymat owner taken a baseball bet to those punks. Or had his friends break their knee cap.
About 30 years ago a punk stole some of my equipment. I went to the police and spoke with a lieutenant and told him about the crime. He looked the guy up and found that the punk severed time for going after a cop with a sword. He told me that if I were to break the punks legs nothing would happen. He said anyone crazy enough to go after a patrolman with sword is very dangerous. I didn't get my stuff back and I didn't break his legs. I regret not breaking his legs because he went on to do a lot of scumbag stuff.
The gun laws in Texas are to lax and the gun laws in NY are oppressive, foolish and probably unconstitutional. In Los Angeles Asians successfully defended their property with guns. While LA cops were dicks then and are dicks now, the rioters were not protesting or reacting to the Rodney King beating, they were other their to loot and destroy stuff. Maybe their sentiments were understandable but their actions were evil.
As ignorant as the MAGAts are, most of them know that Asian Americans are not responsible for the virus. China shut it down and Japan which didn't even have lock downs has only had around 7000 deaths. The biggest spreaders of the virus are the Trumpanzees. America would be better if the virus killed off more Trumpers. While that is an uncomfortable truth, it is nonetheless the truth.
We hear about the Japanese internment camps now and as I see it, with the anger toward Japan in the 1940's, it probably kept them safe and I think that American public then was aware of the artrocities the Japanese were committing in China. I suspect a lot of them knew the difference between a Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans.
NY and other states should allow Asians who want to conceal carry firearms and other weapons so that they can defend themselves. We saw what that little old Cantonese lady did with a stick to the Trumper who sucker punched her. People were so moved by her actions that she got over $600,000 from GoFund Me. WOW! Moral Americans of all complexions care but sadly there are about 75 million of them that felt joy knowing that little lady got sucker punched by that punk who was born Trumpturd.
Because these Trumpturds are filthy cowards they are attacking mostly females and the elderly. I don't think it would be unreasonable for the families of these victims to use DIY justice if the courts screw up.
I love the spirit of that little old lady who wanted to finish beating that punk as a laid on the gurney.
This is more than bigotry and racism this is about evil and the need to purge that evil from America and the world. Sending thoughts and prayers is just a way for slackers and hypocrites to display their piety.
This stuff isn't going away until there is swift and total justice. 60% of Republicans approved the storming of the Capitol. Punish them! 50% of Republican won't get vaccinated. Let em die and spread it to their own kind.
WorldoMeters has the US at over 550,000 deaths and that is not taking into account the under counting of deaths in the Bible Belt and Florida. I would encourage that shit head Rand Paul to run his lie hole about the virus so that the virus does a long slow burn in Kentucky
BTW has Moscow Mitch said anything about the attacks on Asian Americans? He's between a rock and a hard place. He has an Asian wife who jumped Trump's sinking ship. The MAGAts must be really conflicted.
The bottom line is this. Arm Asian Americans and give them give them carte blanche when it comes to defending themselves against the Trump mob. I wish there was a bounty on them.
Of course I'm gonna break your balls. Millionaires deserve all the ridicule and humiliation I can muster.
Now it has come out that you reached up some woman's skirt. That was slick. Democrat women have morals. You could have gotten away with that with a pig like Joni Ernst, Laura Ingraham, Kellyanne Conway or Kimberly Guilfoyle but who in their right mind would want to go near those STD factories? You were trying for very attractive classy women with morals. What were you thinking Andrew? The probably had husbands or boyfriends.
There's an old saying. It's not the face fuck it's the fuck you face. Maybe you should have gone for a butter face but even then you can't just reach under her skirt until you get the green light. Have you been hanging around with that loser Matt Lauer?
Would you not be satisfied with one or two concubines? Is this about conquering women for you?
Let's say all 7 are lying or exaggerating. The best thing for you to do is sit down with all 7 publicly and challenge them and go through both sides of the story. No asshole lawyers-- just you and them.
You probably are a dirty old man and a child in an adult's body. Mario probably didn't give you any man lessons.
Maybe you are trying to prove something to yourself because your wife played you for a fool and cheated on you but maybe you were a dick to her or didn't have enough wedding tackle to light her fire and satisfy her.
Your career is probably over as a politician. Man up and move on.
Some of the women I know would have slapped the shit out of you especially the one you sexually assaulted by reaching up her dress. Did she slap the shit out of you? What made you think reaching up a woman's dress is OK? Do you think is was OK with the woman's mother and father? Your mother was an advocate for women.
You fucking Attorney General yet you sexually assaulted a woman. Had some poor working stiff done that, he'd have been arrested. A real man would admit is transgression and turn himself in and ask the judge for mercy. If I were the judge and because of your charmed life I'd throw the book at you. If you showed some contrition and made atonement I'd merely order that you get therapy and if you offended again I'd have you chemically castrated.
Why do you rich fuckers think the rules of common decency don't apply to you. Your worth million.
Look at this like the common creep would. You played grab ass and you finally got caught. Pay your debt and move on. Make the rest of your life count for something. Honor your family by manning up. No BS!
One of my readers sent this Fax to Congressman Chip Roy
This fax will probably not make it to that punk congressman Chip Roy. You may want to think about your morals and destination of your chartered soul if you are working for him. You may also want to stop turning a blind eye to his crimes, hire a whistle blower lawyer, compile evidence of his crimes and get rich in the process.
"There's old sayings in Texas about find all the rope in Texas and get a tall oak tree. You know, we take justice very seriously, & we ought to do that. Round up the bad guys." -- here's Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)
There's a saying in NY that says, "Hey Vinny take a baseball bat and knee cap that rat bastard." Think about coming to Brooklyn and running your racist lie hole.
Everything's big in Texas, the crime rate, the gun violence, the greed, the arrogance, the bigotry, the murder rate, the COVID deaths and the Asshole Quotient. Leave it to a dumb fuck lying sack of shit Texan to inject immigration, Chinese governance (Trump's products are made in China) and blowing the dog whistle for lynching non whites. I'm not some bleeding heart goody two shoes liberal thinking I can shame you. You're a Republican who was elected by some of the most depraved trash on the planet. You have no shame. You were born destined for hell.
BTW Dum Dum, speech has limits. Implying that asylum seekers and Asians are bad people who should be lynched is a crime. FWI, Mexicans and Asian are more law abiding than the trash that votes for the likes of you and Ted Cancun Cruz.
My highscool principal was a Marine and back when I went to school they didn't make a federal case out of it if two students got into a fight. In fact, one day I had to beat the shit out of a punk like you and when it was all said and done, I got a wink and a nod from my principal after a scolding and the punk got a knotty hair-do a mild concussion. Consequences make bad people act good. The punk I pummeled stayed in line. However, when we graduated he got married and became a wife beater.
With more and more Texas dumb fucks dying from gluttony and COVID there may not be enough scumbags left to vote you into office again. The US is well over 550,000 official deaths according to Worldometers and if we factor in the under counting in Florida, Texas and the BuyBull Belt the actual deaths are probably closer to 3/4 of a million. With the anti maskers, anti vaxxers and the new and deadlier variants COVID will continue to decimate people of your ilk and when it becomes endemic it will continue to do a steady burn in Republican districts. Continue lying to these fools. COVID really is rounding up the bad people. The greedy, the prideful, the gluttonous, the lustful, the wrathful, the fat out of shape slothful fat waddling Baptists and the envious are all getting it worse.
Since you are a Republican then it is safe to assume you have no humanity or morals but in case you do and if you want to avoid hell you need to start by denouncing the Anti-Christ aka Donald Johann Drumpf whose grandmother Elizabeth Christ Trump died on June 6 1966. You probably won't and perhaps you think eternity in hell is an unfair punishment for what you've done in your pathetic life but it is the correct punishment for the likes of you whose sins are by choice. You can start by reciting this prayer. It's a start. There is no salvation through grace. That's Baptist bullshit. Southern Baptists are depraved. Their hymnal originally had 666 songs. Don't believe me? Here's the hymnal. https://hymnary.org/hymnal/BH1991
You vile Rethuglican mobsters have no idea how short-sighted you are. Your base is dying and if you tell the to behave responsibly and morally (They can't.) you will be called a RINO. Sucks to be you.
ACT OF CONTRITION
Oh my God, I am heartily sorry for having offend you and I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell but most of all because I offended you my Lord who art all good and deserving of my love. I firmly resolve with the help of thy grace to do penance and amend my life. Amen
Racist Roy got roasted on Twitter
GOP Nazi Chip Roy Rants About China In Asian American Violence Hearing
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) kicked off a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the recent spike in hate crimes and violence against Asian Americans with some comments that drew fierce blowback. Roy began by acknowledging the Tuesday shooting in Atlanta that killed six Asian women as tragedy, but then pivoted to criticize the hearing and declare he believes in justice in unrelated situations as well.
"There's an old saying in Texas about 'find all the rope in Texas and get a tall oak tree,'" he said. "You know, we take justice very seriously."
California Rep. Ted Lieu (D) said Roy's comments "glorified lynching."
Roy later defended his comments, telling Mediaite:
"Apparently some folks are freaking out that I used an old expression about finding all the rope in Texas and a tall oak tree about carrying out justice against bad guys. ... I meant it. We need more justice and less thought police. We need to stop evil doers – such as those who carried out the attack in Atlanta this week, or cartels abusing little children, or those who kill our cops on the streets. We should restore order by tamping out evil actors… not turn America into an authoritarian state like the Chinese Communists who seek to destroy us. No apologies."
His defense echoed other remarks that angered lawmakers during the hearing. Though the focus was on racist violence and discrimination against Asian Americans, Roy ranted against the Chinese government. "I think the Chinese Communist Party running the country of China, I think they are the bad guys," he said. Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) argued that using the hearing for irrelevant criticism of China's government was another example of rhetoric that could encourage anti-Asian sentiment in general in the U.S.
Op Ed: Educating bigots is futile. Killing them is easy. Just saying. Had moral Germans started picking off Nazis in the 1930's there would be no holocaust. There would be a whole lot more Jews and per capita Jews have done more for humanity than any other group. Imagine were humanity would be if those Jews survived and millions of bigots were killed in their place. Am I advocating the killing of right wing human trash? No. Would I oppose the eradication of right wing trash through executions and sterilizations? No.
For the bleeding hearts who say there is good in everyone, you all need to go fuck yourselves.
If you know of a bigot you should do everything in your power to legally destroy that person and make their life a living hell. Cancel them. Provoke them and capture it on video and get them arrested and fired.
You may be tempted to do unlawful things to them. That's up to you and I don't want to put my own morality on to you. If you bashed one of them with a baseball bat for instance and I were on your jury I would vote to acquit you but that is not me endorsing violence. It is me upholding true justice.
COVID is killing a lot of Trumpers and that's good and I would not want to see that stop and besides I would not waste my breath on those turds. I would just keep telling them what they already believe. Vaccines are dangerous, COVID is a Democrat hoax, Jesus will protect them and masks are an infringement on their rights. The truth is, I like Trumpers, dead ones.
The spread of white supremacist propaganda across the United States nearly doubled over the last year, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
Researchers who track the distribution of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ fliers, posters, stickers and other paraphernalia by members of far-right and white supremacist groups found that there were a total of 5,125 such cases in 2020 — an average of 14 per day — the highest number ever recorded by the ADL.
“White supremacists appear to be more emboldened than ever,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the ADL, said in a statement. Greenblatt suggested that “the election year, the pandemic and other factors may have provided these extremists with additional encouragement.”
According to the report, hate propaganda appeared in every state in the country in 2020 except for Hawaii, with the most activity taking place in Texas, Washington, California, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Though white supremacist literature is designed to intimidate a variety of groups, including nonwhite immigrants as well as Black, Muslim and LGBTQ communities, the ADL found that anti-Semitic propaganda in particular increased by 68 percent over 2019, with 283 incidents specifically targeting Jews.
A volunteer repaints a pride mural in Bellefonte, Pa., on Jan. 9 after it was defaced with graffiti from the white supremacist group Patriot Front. (Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
While white supremacist groups will post photographs of their propaganda online to further increase its exposure, the report focuses specifically on content observed in the physical world. For example, the report found that there were at least 130 white supremacist banner drops, mostly over highway overpasses, in 2020, compared to 53 in 2019.
According to the report, at least 30 white supremacist groups were involved in disseminating propaganda in 2020, but 92 percent of all activity could be traced back to just three groups: Patriot Front, New Jersey European Heritage Association and Nationalist Social Club. Patriot Front, a Texas-based group that was formed in 2017 following the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., was responsible for 4,105 propaganda incidents last year, or 80 percent of the nationwide total.
The ADL report notes how Patriot Front uses “its own iteration of ‘patriotism’ to promote its white supremacist and neo-fascist ideology,” eschewing traditional white supremacist language and symbols in favor of phrases like “America First,” “United we stand” and “Reclaim America” on stickers, posters and fliers printed in red, white and blue.
Jessica Reaves, editorial director at the ADL’s Center on Extremism, told Yahoo News that the dissemination of propaganda by such groups, which is often done discreetly and unannounced, is indicative of the lasting impact of the Unite the Right rally, which left white supremacists fearful of being exposed to their employers, schools and others.
“The vast majority of white supremacists want to stay hidden,” Reaves said, suggesting that propaganda has emerged as a substitute for organized, in-person events. “It helps them maintain some visibility while maintaining anonymity.”
Reaves speculated that coronavirus lockdowns may have contributed to the massive spike in propaganda seen in cities and towns across the country in 2020, allowing white supremacists to more freely distribute their materials without being seen. “The goal is for it to just appear,” she said.
Reaves also suggested that school closures and the move to remote learning during the pandemic may account for the significant decrease in propaganda incidents on college campuses, which dropped by more than half in 2020, according to the ADL report.
Neo-Nazis, alt-right members and white supremacists march the night before the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 11, 2017. (Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“Propaganda gives white supremacists the ability to maximize media and online attention while limiting their risk of exposure or arrest,” Oren Segal, vice president of the ADL’s Center on Extremism, said in a statement. “The literature helps to bolster recruitment efforts and spreads fear.”
Federal law enforcement officials have identified white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terrorist threat now facing the U.S. Earlier this month, Yahoo News reported that the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence division had circulated an internal report warning that it expects threats from white supremacists and other right-wing extremists to persist and potentially escalate this year.
But while Reaves said that the rise in propaganda is “cause for concern,” as it means white supremacist “ideology is reaching more and more people,” she emphasized that she and her colleagues have not observed a direct correlation between white supremacist violence and fliers promoting their message.
“I can certainly see why it’s extremely unnerving to find these fliers out there,” but, she said, “I don’t want people to perceive these fliers as an imminent threat.
“My goal is to make sure as many people as possible understand what these things look like.”
