Racist Man Knifes, Assaults Asian Family While Blaming Them For Spread Of COVID-19


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A man from Texas who attacked an Asian family in March 2020 due to a misplaced belief that they were responsible for spreading the COVID-19 virus was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday by a Texan court. Jose Gomez III, a 21-year-old man from Midland, Texas, was arrested in March 2020 after he followed an Asian family that he presumed was Chinese inside a Sam’s Club Warehouse, stalking them around the store because he believed that they were “from the country who started spreading that disease around,” according to CBS 11 . In the store, he found a...