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struggle4progress

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1. White supremacist stabs interracial couple after seeing them kiss

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Fri Aug 19, 2016, 11:36 AM

Aug 2016

Cleve R. Wootson Jr
1 hour ago

Daniel Rowe was apparently enraged at the sight of a black man and a white woman kissing on the streets of Olympia, Wash., Tuesday night. But police say he hid his violent intent behind a stony face until he was close enough to strike ...

Rowe had recently been released from Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, about 300 miles away. Police say he may have been among the ranks of the state's homeless, who flock to Olympia for help on their way to Portland or Seattle.

Rowe, 32, walked up to the couple and, without warning, yelled a racial slur and lunged with his knife, police say. The blade grazed the woman and went into the man's hip ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/white-supremacist-stabs-interracial-couple-after-seeing-them-kiss-at-bar-police-say-a7199501.html

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Stabbing suspect: I was responding to anti-police graffiti (WA) [View all] struggle4progress Aug 2016 OP

White supremacist stabs interracial couple after seeing them kiss struggle4progress Aug 2016 #1

A news station blamed BLM MattP Aug 2016 #2

This punk has a deep-seated need for much moreware house time. Eleanors38 Aug 2016 #3