"Questionable shootings and killings by police have happened here in the valley y’all don’t have to look that far. I maybe wrong but I don’t remember any protests or gatherings in the valley to question those incidents." Commenter
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Ever since the national - and international - outpouring of anger and protest against the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, commenters to this blog have questioned why the streets have not filled when a crazed gunman enters a building, a church, or other meeting place snd gunned down innocent people.
And commenters like the one quoted above also asks why killing by local cops of Hispanics has not fueled the outrage of the the local students and protesters.
"Where were the protestors when the gunman went into a Walmart in El Paso and shot down the shoppers there just because they were Mexicans?," asked one. "He had even posted in his Facebook that he was going to El Paso to shoot Mexicans."
The commenter was talking about the mass shooting that happened on August 3, 2019, when gunman Patrick Crusius, 21, shot and killed 23 people and injured 23 others.
There are a lot of other mass shooting that targeted elementary schools, churches (Southerland Spring, Texas) , and mass gatherings, they say. Some of those were black churches or jewish synagogues
"What about the mass shooting in Florida where the high school students pushed for outlawing assault rifles?," they also said. "They went to Congress and demanded changes but the gun lobby has control of Washington D.C. and nothing happened."
Why, asked one, don't the protesters who marched in protest of the Floyd murder, join with the kids who were protesting the availability of assault rifles and form a coalition against violence against everybody? In the Civil Rights movement, there were Mexican Americans, Jews, poor whites and other groups who joined the blacks to form the movement.
Even one commenter who identified himself as a former lawman said that if a bad cop is identified, they should be "strung up" and prosecuted.
"Bad cops should be found wherever they are, even in Brownsville, and kicked out," he said. "But we are forgetting that while Floyd was one black man who was a victim of police violence, there are many other groups, Mexicans included, who have been targeted by bad cops and crazy people who can get automatic weapons and kill dozens of people by squeezing a trigger.
"We are all like George Floyd," said another. "All live matter. We all want to breathe."