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White guy kills two indian guys

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  1. edwardc

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    Are you kidding this is the great dividers handy work.For you to blame Pres Obama for the dallas shoot is just asinine.
     
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    There doing the same as the right did with pres.Obama it took him to long to say something about the issue.
     
  3. Amiga

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    He did? Good for him.

    If I'm bigtexxx, I would say - "too late".

    I would say let's see what actions and words he will use from now on. That count more than a condemnation.
     
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    Here are some different racists. They r really good at crying! But when they were pointing that shotgun, I bet they were H.R. Tuffnstuff. Have fun in predominantly-African-American jail, White Stallions!

     
  5. LosPollosHermanos

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    This is why everybody loves houston. So great and so diverse.



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    'Hero' in Kansas triple shooting honored with $100,000



    An organization representing the Indian-American community of Houston honored the man who was shot last month while trying to protect two Indian men who were targeted in a suspected hate crime.

    India House Houston, a non-profit organization based in Houston, Texas, called Ian Grillot a "genuine hero" and awarded him with $100,000 on Saturday for intervening in a deadly shooting at a bar in Kansas.

    "It is not always that we get an opportunity to meet a genuine hero — a person who risks his life for another, a person who takes a bullet for a complete stranger, a man who reminds us of the promise of America and its greatness. Ian Grillot is such a man," the organization said in a video posted on its Facebook page on Monday.

    The organization honored Grillot during its 14th Annual Gala on Saturday. India House Houston said the money would help him to buy a house.

    Grillot, 24, was shot while trying to stop a gunman who witnesses said yelled "get out of my country" before shooting two Indian men at a bar in Olathe, Kansas, last month, killing one.

    Adam Purinton, a 51-year-old Navy veteran and former air traffic controller, is being charged with murder and attempted murder in the shooting that killed Srinivas Kuchibhotla and wounded Alok Madasani, both 32-year-old employees of the technology company Garmin.

    Authorities are investigating if the shooting was a hate crime.
     
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    Kansas man sentenced to life in prison for killing Indian immigrant

    OLATHE, Kan. -- A Kansas man who opened fire last year in a suburban Kansas City bar, killing an immigrant from India in what federal prosecutors have called a hate crime, was sentenced Friday to life in prison. Adam Purinton, 52, was sentenced for premeditated first-degree murder in the Feb. 22, 2017, death of Srinivas Kuchibhotla.

    The shooting stirred fears that immigrants were facing more violence after President Trump's election. It also attracted international attention, especially in India, where officials publicly wondered if their citizens were safe in the U.S.

    Witnesses said Purinton, who is white, uttered racial slurs at Kuchibhotla and his friend, Alok Madasani, both 32, as they enjoyed an after-work drink at Austin's Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas. He was asked to leave but eventually returned and yelled "Get out of my country!" before firing at the men. A third man, Ian Grillot, was wounded when he tried to intervene.

    Under terms of a plea agreement, District Judge Charles Droege sentenced Purinton to the maximum sentence on each of the three charges, and ordered them to run consecutively. Purinton was given two sentences of about 14 years for wounding the two men and wouldn't be eligible for parole for 77.5 years, the Kansas City Star reported.

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    People gather near a photograph of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, the 32-year-old Indian engineer killed at a bar Olathe, Kansas, during a peace vigil in Bellevue, Washington on March 5, 2017.

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    "Our goal is to make sure that he never walks in the community again, that he spends the rest of his life in the penitentiary, and I believe this sentence will achieve that result," Johnson County D.A. Steve Howe said Friday, according to the Kansas City Star.

    Kuchibhotla and Madasani immigrated to the U.S. as students and were working as engineers at GPS-maker Garmin at the time of the shooting. Madasani told detectives that the gunman asked the men if their "status was legal" before he opened fire, according to a court affidavit.

    Purinton still faces federal hate crime charges for the shooting and is scheduled for a change of plea hearing May 21.

    None of the victims or their family members attended Friday's sentencing.

    But Kuchibhotla's widow, Sunayana Dumala, said in a statement directed to Purinton that she wished he could have seen beyond her husband's skin color to "the beautiful and kindhearted person underneath it."

    She said the couple was looking forward to raising a family in the dream home they had found in Kansas.

    "We were supposed to be together for lifetime but now the thought of having to live life alone and the hardships that come with it is unbearable," she wrote.


    Dumala said her husband was working on several large contracts at Garmin when he was killed and those contracts will provide jobs to many people. "Imagine how much more he could have achieved and contributed to the community if not for your anger and hatred."

    "I hope in the years that you must spend in the jail you will one day realize the magnitude of your mistake and work toward your penance," she said.

    After the shooting, Purinton drove 70 miles to Clinton, Missouri, where he confessed the shooting to a bartender at a restaurant.

    In a written statement filed when he pleaded guilty in March, Purinton said he accepted full responsibility for the "grievous harm" he caused the victims, their families and the community.

    "I hope that this plea might, in some small way, help reduce the suffering that I have caused them all," he said in his statement.

    Purinton, a Navy veteran, was a regular customer at Austin's. Neighbors in the Olathe neighborhood where he lived told the Associated Press that he became "a drunken mess" following his father's death about two years before the shooting and had physically and mentally deteriorated.
     
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    I hope this means an actual sentence and not 40% of one.
     
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    Good riddance. Trump deserves 3 or 4 years for enabling this guy.
     
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    It would be nice if trump didn't stoke the flames of racial hatred. I guess that's too much to ask from your leader thought right?
     

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