Illinois HR 508: CONDEMN POLITICAL VIOLENCE

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HR0508LRB104 15860 MST 29076 r

1HOUSE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, Unacceptable acts of violence have scarred our 

3democratic process; and

4 WHEREAS, This violence has touched a campus political 

5rally in Utah, the quiet suburban streets of Minnesota, a 

6synagogue in Pittsburgh, the oldest Black church in 

7Charleston, South Carolina, a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas, and 

8so many communities in between; and

9 WHEREAS, The toxic combination of violent political 

10rhetoric and racial hatred led to an appalling crime here in 

11Illinois, when a 73-year-old man brutally murdered 6-year-old 

12Wadee Alfayoumi and attempted to murder the boy's mother after 

13racially profiling the Muslim family and falsely linking them 

14to international events in which they had no involvement; and

15 WHEREAS, While stated and speculated motivations of 

16perpetrators vary, some radicalized on the darkest corners of 

17the internet, some driven by hateful racist ideology, and some 

18lost in the apocalyptic rhetoric that pervades our political 

19discourse, their common goal is to inflict violence on someone 

20they view as different and to instill fear; and

21 WHEREAS, Even as people from all sides of the ideological 

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1spectrum stand united in condemning these violent acts, we 

2cannot truly condemn politically motivated violence while 

3condoning the politically motivated violence Donald Trump is 

4inflicting on people across Illinois; and

5 WHEREAS, Donald Trump's agents are profiling people simply 

6because of how they look and deploying chemical munitions in 

7communities where people just want to live in peace; acting on 

8Trump's orders, they are inflicting violence on people they 

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