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(CNN) — A 21-year-old Texas man pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges after he brutally attacked and blamed an Asian family whom he believed to be Chinese [for the Covid-19 pandemic,](//www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/us/anti-asian-bias-biden-covid-19-origin-report/index.html) prosecutors [announced](//www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-man-pleads-guilty-hate-crime-charges-attacking-asian-family) last Wednesday. Jose Gomez III saw a Burmese family with three young children enter a Sam’s Club in Midland, Texas, on the evening of March 14, 2020, and, believing they were Chinese, followed them into the store, according to a criminal complaint. Gomez grabbed kitchen knives that were being sold at the store and attacked the family, slashing the father and a child who was then...
