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By State Rep. Joe Moody, Guest Columnist
• El Paso Times
EL PASO, TEXAS - This week brings a somber anniversary: the third year since 23 innocent people were taken from us in a racially motivated massacre. Remembering the bright, beautiful people we lost that day is the clearest reason we keep this date in our hearts, and with the man charged in their murders still sitting in a jail cell awaiting justice, it’s a wound that remains fresh for all of us here in El Paso.
But there are other reasons we must remember.
I was recently reminded of that clearly when I added 21 more names to the 23 already burned into my mind. As I helped lead the House’s investigation into the mass shooting in Uvalde that stole 19 children and two teachers from that community, I couldn’t help but see the unbroken line that connected it to El Paso (and to the grim parade of mass killings before and between them). We have to remember because these aren’t isolated attacks ...
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Photo Album: Community memorial honors El Paso shooting victims
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By Gaby Velasquez, Photographer
• El Paso Times
EL PASO, TEXAS - Border Network for Human Rights led the #ElPasoFirme Community Memorial: A Call to Action Against White Supremacy, Racism, and Xenophobia service at Ponder Park in East El Paso on August 3, 2022, the third anniversary of the August 3 Walmart shooting ...
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As El Paso struggles to heal, Walmart shooter's rhetoric builds in GOP
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By Martha Pskowski, Reporter
• El Paso Times
EL PASO, TEXAS - When Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick appeared on a July 5 Fox News segment about fentanyl, his comments quickly turned to the U.S.-Mexico border.
“We are being invaded," he told the host.
“We’re being attacked as we were on Pearl Harbor," he followed up.
That same day, Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan signed a disaster declaration. The South Texas county had previously called for help to “defend our borders” from undocumented immigrants. Now Shahan called on Gov. Greg Abbott, as the state’s Commander-in-Chief, to “declare the existence of an invasion on its border with Mexico.”
Patrick and Shahan’s words were familiar to the people of El Paso.
Nearly three years earlier, a white man north of Dallas wrote a diatribe ...
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Photo Album: Bell toll memorial honors August 3rd victims
• Music, moments of silence, words of condolence inspiration
By Gaby Velasquez, Photographer
• El Paso Times
EL PASO, TEXAS - City Council members gathered to observe a memorial at City Hall in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 ...
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By Gaby Velasquez, Photographer
• El Paso Times
EL PASO, TEXAS - City Council members gathered to observe a memorial at City Hall in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 ...
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By Lauren Villagran, Reporter
• El Paso Times
EL PASO, TEXAS - The morning sun shone on black crosses, each painted with the name of one of the 23 victims.
Community members carried them in solemn procession to the thrum of a single drum and planted them in a semi-circle in a park that for months in the wake of the shooting was home to a makeshift memorial of photos and flowers and mementos.
Through testimony, prayer and song at Ponder Park, El Pasoans remembered those killed in the Walmart mass shooting on Aug. 3, 2019 ...
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