The world over, this is what the victims of terrorism look like #ChapelHillShooting http://t.co/EEdW4nWRVT
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Ryan Cummings (@Pol_Sec_Analyst) February 11, 2025My cousin, his wife and sister in law were murdered for being muslim. Someone tell me racism/hate crimes don't exist. #MuslimLivesMatter
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Haya Barakat (@HayaBarakat) February 11, 2025****
Yusor Abu-Salha, murdered in #ChapelHillShooting, recently provided dental aid to Syrian refugees. http://t.co/UUCsHf5EFj
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Raquel E Saraswati (@RaquelEvita) February 11, 2025Deah Barakat, murdered in #ChapelHillShooting, also gave back, providing dental and food supplies to the homeless. http://t.co/r2LPhuZyss
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Raquel E Saraswati (@RaquelEvita) February 11, 2025****
People calling this a dispute over parking are full of BS. Whenever a white person does this to a minority community, we always look for loopholes to justify it. This is a hate crime
Victims’ father on #ChapelHillShooting: “This was not a dispute over a parking space; this was a hate crime." newsobserver.com/2015/02/11/454…
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Brady Dennis (@brady_dennis) February 11, 2025Twitter today: "why don't the media cover killings of minorities like they do killings by minorities?" Um, hello. That's what racism is.
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umair (@umairh) February 11, 2025****
The father of two of three students shot to death in Chapel Hill on Tuesday says the shooting was a “hate crime” based on the Muslim faith of the victims. Chapel Hill police said Wednesday morning that a dispute about parking in the neighborhood of rented condominiums near Meadowmont may have led Craig Stephen Hicks to shoot his neighbors, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and Abu-Salha’s sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh. But the women’s father, Dr. Mohammad Abu-Salha, who has a psychiatry practice in Clayton, said regardless of the precise trigger Tuesday night, Hicks’ underlying animosity toward Barakat and Abu-Salha was based on their religion and culture.
Sorry your dream was so brutally snatched from you. #ChapelHillShooting http://t.co/2zFa1oNCVc
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_ (@random_ukht) February 11, 2025Deah Barakat tweeted this in October. Ended up getting shot & killed by a man from his community. #ChapelHillShooting http://t.co/M7fUagPvsB
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Saba (@smalfuhaid) February 11, 2025A couple months ago Deah texted me, always trying to change the world for the better. #ChapelHillShooting #deah #rip http://t.co/NeIZ7wv9Dd
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danabarakat (@danabarakat3) February 11, 2025Abu-Salha said police told him Hicks shot the three inside their apartment. “It was execution style, a bullet in every head,” Abu-Salha said Wednesday morning. “This was not a dispute over a parking space; this was a hate crime. This man had picked on my daughter and her husband a couple of times before, and he talked with them with his gun in his belt. And they were uncomfortable with him, but they did not know he would go this far.” Abu-Salha said his daughter who lived next door to Hicks wore a Muslim head scarf and told her family a week ago that she had “a hateful neighbor.” “Honest to God, she said, ‘He hates us for what we are and how we look,’” he said.
More here
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The victims have names and faces:
- Deah Barakat
- Yusor Abu-Salha
- Razan Abu-Salha
RIP. #ChapelHillShooting http://t.co/f1Bp8gNfPA
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Khaled Bey (@KhaledBeydoun) February 11, 2025#Breaking: statement from @ChapelHillPD Chief @ChrisBlue840 regarding motive in #ChapelHillShooting http://t.co/vaQaqbWQrO
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Lauren Horsch (@LaurenHorsch) February 11, 2025****
#WeAreBlackHistory on @ELLEmagazine!! Check out me & other amazing Black women elle.com/culture/art-de… http://t.co/q5WaSyBVuP
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MyFeminismRealAF (@FeministaJones) February 11, 20251 million+ African Americans worked on the home front during WWII & 60% were women #AAHM #BlackHistory @RosieTrust http://t.co/ykJ4SlJHm7
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NationalParkService (@NatlParkService) February 09, 2025****
Horrible news. Chapel Hill shooting: Three American Muslim students killed near University of North Carolina ibt.uk/A006ExC
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Brooklyn Middleton (@BklynMiddleton) February 11, 202587% of U.S. mass shooting are committed by caucasians 13-56. Why don't we spy on this community? #ChapelHillShooting http://t.co/zu7MHD2Gl4”
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Aamir | KASHMIR (@aamiryatoo) February 11, 2025****
