A Texas man has pleaded guilty to three hate crime charges after he attacked an Asian family because he believed they were responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.



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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

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MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A West Texas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to hate-crime charges from his March 2020 knife attack on an Asian family at a warehouse store, officials said. Jose Gomez III, 21, of Midland, Texas, pleaded guilty to three hate-crime counts from his attack on Bawi Cung and his son at a Midland Sam’s Club, according to a Justice Department statement .

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Jose Gomez, 21, took a knife from a Sam's Club store display and used it to slash a man and his young son in 2020, telling them, \

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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, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

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A man who attacked and blamed an Asian family for Covid-19 pleaded guilty to hate crimes charges

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) – A West Texas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to hate-crime charges from his March 2020 knife attack on an Asian family at a warehouse store, officials said.Jose Gomez III, 21, of Midland, Texas, pleaded guilty to three hate-crime counts from his attack on Bawi Cung and his son at a Midland Sam’s Club, according to a Justice Department statement. He could be sentenced to life imprisonment and fined $250,000.In court documents, …

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MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A West Texas man has pleaded guilty to hate-crime charges relating to an attack on an Asian family at a warehouse store. In a statement, federal prosecutors say Jose Gomez III could get life imprisonment for his Wednesday guilty plea to three hate-crime counts from his March 2020 attack at a Midland Sam’s Club. The 21-year-old Midland man admitted taking a knife from a store display and slashing Bawi Cung, his 6-year-old so…

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By Andy Rose, CNNA 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, prosecutors announced 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 crimin…

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Jose Gomez III pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate crime and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

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A man slashed the face of a six-year-old child with a knife during a 2020 assault in a Texas store because he thought the boy and his father were Chinese.

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Jose Gomez III, 21, of Midland, Texas, pleaded guilty to three hate-crime counts. He could be sentenced to life imprisonment and fined $250,000. Gomez said he blamed China for the COVID-19 pandemic and mistook the Burmese family for Chinese.

Man pleads guilty to hate crime charges in attack of Asian family he blamed for pandemic

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