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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps deafening silence on the Olathe, Kansas murder
https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-deafening-silence-on-the-olathe-kansas-murder-d3d06cf437c6#.o84g9lf8qLast week, 32-year-old Indian immigrant Srinivas Kuchibhotla was murdered at a bar in Olathe, Kansas. The FBI is investigating the shooting that claimed his life and which also wounded fellow India native Alok Madasini and Ian Grillot, a white local who tried to intervene as a potential hate crime. Kuchibhotlas suspected murderer allegedly shouted get out of my country before opening fire; a witness says the shooter targeted the two Indian men because he believed they were Iranians.
In other words, this bears all the hallmarks of racist vigilantism. And it did not occur in a vacuum. Since President Donald Trump was elected on an avowedly Islamophobic platform, the nation has been convulsed by an unceasing wave of hate-based violence, harassment, and intimidation. Now that violence has claimed a life and stunned countless onlookers both in the United States and in Kuchibhotlas native India, where the killing made front page news.
And yet, six days after the shooting, Trump still hasnt said a word about it.
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President Clinton, btw, has made a statement:
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Trumps deafening silence on the Olathe, Kansas murder (Original Post)
deminks
Feb 2017
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Initech
(100,029 posts)1. If Trump really wanted to prove he was president, he would have denounced this shit already.
Instead, his silence speaks volumes.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. Too much hate
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)3. Unforgivable!
But I have come to expect that he will never do the right thing in these situations and even if he did, he would just be full of bullshit anyway. It would come across as hollow and insincere because the truth is, he really doesn't give a shit about these people. God, I despise him with a passion.
Pinna
(8 posts)4. It's probably pigeonholed right next to Obama's response to Kate Steinle and Marilyn Pharis.