Los Angeles Times

Gustavo Arellano: A Latino-on-Latino mass shooting. What now?

When I heard that a gunman had killed multiple schoolchildren in a predominantly Latino town in Texas, I immediately thought: white supremacist. How could I not? Just this month, a white man allegedly murdered 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, while railing against Latino "replacers" in an online manifesto. In 2019, another white man radicalized by neo-Nazi literature drove hundreds of ...
Esmerralda Bravo holds a picture of her grandaughter Naveah, a shooting victim, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at the Uvalde County Fairplex to honor the victims of a mass shooting during a vigil in Texas.

When I heard that a gunman had killed multiple schoolchildren in a predominantly Latino town in Texas, I immediately thought: white supremacist.

How could I not?

Just this month, a white man allegedly murdered 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, while railing against Latino "replacers" in an online manifesto.

In 2019, another white man radicalized by neo-Nazi literature drove hundreds of miles to a Walmart in El Paso with the explicit mission to kill Latinos, prosecutors say. , and multiple essays and columns.

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times1 min read
Chargers Trade Up In Round 2 To Get Georgia Receiver They Coveted
LOS ANGELES — The Chargers started Day 2 of the NFL draft Friday by getting receiving help, selecting Georgia’s Ladd McConkey with the second pick of the second round, the 34th selection overall. The Chargers made a deal with New England to swap thei
Los Angeles Times3 min read
Tyler Glasnow Dominates Before Making Quick Exit In Dodgers' Sixth Consecutive Win
TORONTO — For the first time in his debut Dodgers season, there seemed to be a brief injury scare for starting pitcher Tyler Glasnow on Saturday. After six stellar, suffocating, scoreless innings in a 4-2 Dodgers win over the Toronto Blue Jays at Rog
Los Angeles Times2 min read
Lakers Avoid Elimination By Holding Off Nuggets In Game 4
LOS ANGELES — LeBron James, in the Lakers’ white uniform, stood at the scorer’s table, filled his hands with chalk and tossed it into the evening air — the same as always. Yet Saturday, even if it was like the previous 11 meetings with the Denver Nug

Related Books & Audiobooks