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A Texas<\/a> man pleaded<\/a> guilty to federal\u00a0hate crime charges<\/a>\u00a0this week in connection with a 2020 attack on an Asian family at a Sam\u2019s Club.<\/p>\n Per a report from<\/a> NBC News, 21-year-old Jose Gomez III pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate crime and admitted to having cut a customer, their six-year-old child, and a Sam\u2019s Club worker who intervened on the attack.\u00a0Gomez, of Midland, is said to have confronted a Burmese family because he believed they were Chinese and \u201cresponsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff of the Western District of Texas said Wednesday that this variety of \u201chate-based violence\u201d has \u201cno place in our society,\u201d adding that authorities will continue to pursue similar actions against others who engage in such attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThese victims and others who suffer such brutal, hate-based attacks deserve justice and to live without fear in our communities,\u201d Hoff said<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to the Justice Department,\u00a0Gomez was behind an Asian family \u201cwith young children\u201d at a Sam\u2019s Club Warehouse in Midland on March 14, 2020. Gomez is said to have followed the family for several minutes before ultimately brandishing a \u201cserrated steak knife\u201d he found in the store. The blade was bent, per the DOJ, so that it rested against Gomez\u2019s knuckles with the sharp edge facing in the outward direction. Gomez first punched the father in the face, ultimately cutting him.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n At this point, Gomez left the scene but quickly returned with an eight-inch knife and \u201cslashed open\u201d the face of the family\u2019s six-year-old child.\u00a0The Sam\u2019s Club employee was also stabbed while trying to intervene on Gomez\u2019s attack, which also saw the 21-year-old screaming \u201cGet out of America!\u201d<\/p>\n Gomez now faces a maximum sentence of life behind bars, as well as a fine of $250,000 for each charge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Texas man pleaded guilty to federal\u00a0hate crime charges\u00a0this week in connection with a 2020 attack on an Asian family at a Sam\u2019s Club. Per a report from NBC News, 21-year-old Jose Gomez III pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate crime and admitted to having cut a customer, their six-year-old child, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[782,448,449,111,270,5,1391,7,8,8999,784,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-dfp-notadsafe","category-dfp-notadsafe-noads","category-dfp-politics","category-dfp-politics-social","category-featured","category-hate-crimes","category-music","category-news","category-pandemic","category-texas","category-tier-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125026,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125024\/revisions\/125026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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