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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas Attorney General Stayed Quiet For Months as a Gun Owner Sent Threats to Kill Immigrants: Repor
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-shootings-gun-policy-1457936A report out Wednesday by the San Antonio Express-News found that a gun owner in Texas had sent more than 100 pages of racist and violent letters to the Texas Attorney General's office threatening to kill undocumented immigrants over the course of a year and a half, and that nothing was done to stop him or to communicate the threat to local authorities.
"We will open fire on these thugs," the white man who allegedly sent the messages wrote in an email to the office. "It will be a bloodbath."
Over the same period, local officers in San Antonio responded to 911 calls made by and about the man, and visited his house, on at least 35 occasions. However, because he had never seemingly committed a crime, police did not arrest him or take legal action. Nearby neighbors told the Express-News that the man's home is covered in security cameras and that he often emerged holding a shotgun.
When alerted by a reporter at the Express-News of the threats made to the Attorney General's Office, the police force did respond. "Since you've made us aware of those threats, our fusion center and our mental health unit have reached out to the AG's office and are trying to work something to make a case against [the alleged suspect Ralph] Pulliam," Sargent Michelle Ramos told the paper. "They're going to investigate that."
The threats and lack of communication by Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to local police takes on a new light in the wake of two mass shootings in Odessa and El Paso. The El Paso shooter had long written about his hatred for immigrants and his mother had reportedly called the police before the shooting because she did not think her son should own a gun.
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Texas Attorney General Stayed Quiet For Months as a Gun Owner Sent Threats to Kill Immigrants: Repor (Original Post)
WhiteTara
Sep 2019
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Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)1. So scoundrel AG's are on special this year are they?
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)2. K&R
lark
(23,091 posts)3. So AG's office are gun humping murderer enablers.
Sounds about right for TX.
UTUSN
(70,681 posts)4. Let's get his scumbag wingnut name & face out there: Ken PAXTON. His 2 reasons:
Reason 1: He *agrees* with the racist b.s.
Reason 2: His priority is defending himself against the court charges against him. Too busy. "Attorney General" (enforcing law) with charges against him.