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A white supremacist who massacred 23 Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in the border city of El Paso in 2019 could receive multiple life sentences and the death penalty.
Patrick Crusius has pleaded guilty to 90 counts against him including committing a hate crime resulting in death. Before the attack he posted racist material against Mexicans online.
In Torreón that silence is still so absolute that no monuments mark the massacre, which killed half the city’s Chinese population at the time. A commemorative plaque was swiftly stolen. A statue erected in a public park in 2007 was vandalized and later removed, but will be restored to a public plaza for the commemoration. Victims of the massacre were buried in common graves, including one which is now covered by a roadway and small playground. “Local historians considered this just an anecdote: ‘One day in Torreón they killed some Chinese people’,” said Castañón, who has combed ...