Last weekend we saw another mass shooting hate crime in Jacksonville, Florida. The three victims were Angela Michelle Carr, 52; Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre Jr., 19; and Jarrald De’Shaun Gallion, 29.

These are becoming all too common as the insidiousness continues to spread on social media, cable news, and many, many other outlets. You had the Walmart murders in El Paso, where a Texas man killed 23 people and injured 22 more. Then, The Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, where a 46-year-old truck driver shot and killed 11 people and wounded six Back to Florida where you had the Pulse Nightclub Shooting, in 2016. A gunman shot and killed 49 people and wounded 53 others at the gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida before police shot and killed him after a three-hour standoff.

In May 2022 an 18-year-old man killed 10 Black people at a Tops Friendly Markets grocery store in western New York. The gunman wrote a 180-page manifesto on racial purity before driving more than 240 miles (380 km) to Buffalo, a place where he expected to find Black people, police said.

While a few of these crimes I highlighted have occurred in Florida, the problem is everywhere. 

Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/jacksonville-grief-stricken-community-grapples-target-rcna102079

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RsXFaH5x0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY06GIyMBDA

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/white-man-fatally-shoots-3-black-people-at-a-florida-store-in-a-hate-crime-officials-say

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