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WHY WE NEED A BLACK HATE CRIME BILL: WHITE SUPREMACIST RYAN CHRISTOPHER PALMETER TARGETS AND ASSASSINATES THREE BLACK PEOPLE

Ryan Christopher Palmeter

By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare

The white supremacist domestic terrorist who targeted and assassinated three black people at the Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida,  this past Saturday was a 21-year-old man named, Ryan Christopher Palmeter.

Palmeter,  who was wearing a tactical vest, was armed with an AR-15 rifle and a handgun. According to Reuters: the suspect was caught on video shooting Angela Michelle Carr, a 52-year-old woman, in her car outside the Dollar General (DG.N) , a U.S. discount chain.

He then entered the store where he shot and killed 19-year-old Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre Jr and Jerrald De’Shaun Gallion, 29. He would later use his handgun to kill himself.

According to Sheriff T.K. Waters ,
says that the shooter left several manifestos behind for the media,  where he detailed his hatred for black people. Palmeter,  who lived with his parents in a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida,  also left behind a will and a suicide note.

In a statement,  the FBI said they will be investigating the targeted killings as a hate crime:

“The FBI Jacksonville Field Office is coordinating with the Justice Departmentโ€™s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorneyโ€™s Office for the Middle District of Florida on the tragic shooting in Jacksonville, Florida. The FBI has opened a federal civil rights investigation and we will pursue this incident as a hate crime. The FBI will bring every resource to bear in this investigation. As this is an ongoing matter, we are not able to provide additional information at this time”.

For additional information use links below:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/sheriff-identifies-shooter-jacksonville-florida-who-killed-3-people-2023-08-27/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/sheriff-identifies-shooter-jacksonville-florida-who-killed-3-people-2023-08-27/

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WHITE SUPREMACIST TERRORIST, ย DYLANN ROOF SENTENCED TO DEATH

By: Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare

Dylann Roof will now have to spend the rest of his life, figuratively speaking in hell.
After a 12-person jury sentenced the white supremacist and domestic terrorist to death on tuesday, for the evil crime of killing nine black church goers, including senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Charleston, South Carolina, om June 17, 2015.

For additional information use link below:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dylann-roof-sentenced-death-murdering-9-black-churchgoers-article-1.2942967

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OPEN LETTER FROM THE STRUGGLE : THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNHEARD

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The last two days when I see the senseless and easily avoidable shooting of two black men ( Alton Sterling and Philando Castile) or see several police killed and wounded , while policing a rally against police brutality and racism, that was relatively peaceful up into the point of the shooting.

It reminds of the Martin Luther King Jr. Statement, that conservative media purposely omits from MLK’s legacy and that’s “Riots is the voice of the unheard.”

Obviously, one wrong does not correct another wrong, but hurt people hurt people. You can’t kill more unarmed black people than white mass shooters and expect that everyone will turn the other cheek like the great Martin Luther King Jr. Especially when you have seen this ridiculous movie so many times from Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, etc. And you know how it all ends, no conviction, even if caught on camera.

-Leon Kwasi Kuntuo-Asare