A week after the mass shooting that killed 22 people and injured about two dozen more, El Paso residents and others rallied to deliver a forceful message: Don't forget what happened here.
EL PASO, Texas — With grief and shock still being felt a week after a gunman targeting Latinos shot and killed 22 people and injured about two dozen more, El Paso residents and others marched and rallied to deliver a forceful message: Don't forget what happened here.
There were calls for gun control and crackdowns on white supremacists and a rallying cry for action from Jessica Coca Garcia, a survivor of the Walmart shooting whose husband still is in critical condition in an El Paso hospital. The march and rally were organized by the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, a 90-year-old Latino civil rights organization that has a long history of taking on discrimination and violence against Mexican-Americans, Latinos and more recently, immigration.
Before the march, state Rep. Mary Gonzalez, D-Clint, said while the attack on back-to-school shoppers was a domestic terrorism attack, it should not be forgotten that it was fueled by racism against Latinos.
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