{"id":247879,"date":"2021-03-18T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=247879"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:30:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:30:31","slug":"democrats-jump-ahead-of-police-on-motive-blame-trump-for-atlanta-mass-shooting-that-killed-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-jump-ahead-of-police-on-motive-blame-trump-for-atlanta-mass-shooting-that-killed-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Jump Ahead Of Police On Motive, Blame Trump For Atlanta Mass Shooting That Killed Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-jump-ahead-of-police-on-motive-blame-trump-for-atlanta-mass-shooting-that-killed-eight%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=247879&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1859.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers are using a mass shooting in Georgia to hit former President Donald Trump\u2019s rhetoric concerning COVID-19 and making claims not supported by law enforcement statements.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in Washington have blamed the mass shooting in Atlanta, which left eight dead, on anti-Asian American sentiment allegedly drummed up by Trump and others referring to COVID-19 as the \u201cChina Virus\u201d or the \u201cWuhan Virus.\u201d COVID-19 originated in Wuhan, China, sometime in 2019 and spread globally largely due to Beijing\u2019s efforts to hide key information about the illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the aftermath of a whole year of Donald Trump\u2019s using the terms \u2018China Virus\u2019 and \u2018Wuhan Virus\u2019 and creating hatred,\u201d Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/17\/end-anti-asian-hate-crimes-atlanta-killings-476899\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She repeated her assertions against Trump at a Wednesday House Democratic Caucus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?509964-1\/house-democratic-caucus-holds-news-conference\">press conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump clearly stoked the flames of xenophobia against AAPIs with his rhetoric,\u201d Chu said. \u201cThe CDC and the World Health Organization said that we should all use the official term, COVID-19, in order to make sure that this disease is not associated with a particular geographical location or ethnicity due to the stigma it causes. And President Trump refused to acknowledge that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) blamed use of the term \u201cChina Virus\u201d in a veiled shot at Trump during a Thursday hearing on anti-Asian American violence in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile there\u2019s still many details to be learned about Tuesday\u2019s horrific shootings in Atlanta that left eight people dead, six of them reportedly of Asian descent, one thing is certain: for many Asian Americans, Tuesday\u2019s shocking events felt like the inevitable culmination of a year in which there were nearly 3,800 incidents of anti-Asian hate incidents that grew increasingly more violent over time as the COVID-19 pandemic worsened and some people wrongly blamed Asian Americans, or implied such by calling it the \u2018China Virus,\u2019\u201d Cohen said at the start of the hearing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.268786127168\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Steve Cohen addresses Asian Americans &#8220;who are understandably feeling hurt and afraid right now, and wondering whether anyone else in America cares.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congress sees you, we stand with you, we will do everything in our power to protect you.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xYMAqcscOk\">https:\/\/t.co\/xYMAqcscOk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6AW4TOQBm8\">pic.twitter.com\/6AW4TOQBm8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/1372552498305757187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Police arrested and charged a 21-year-old man with eight counts of murder after police say he went on a shooting spree targeting three massage parlors in Atlanta. The suspect told police that he had a \u201csexual addiction\u201d and targeted the massage parlors, which he had frequented, to get rid of the \u201ctemptation,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2021\/03\/17\/us\/shooting-atlanta-acworth\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement have not yet given a conclusive answer on the shooter\u2019s motivation. Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said that the suspect \u201cfrequented these places in the past and may have been lashing out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta Police Department acting Chief Rodney Bryant said that, so far, the police are not considering the shooting a hate crime, though they have not ruled it out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still early in this investigation, so we cannot make that determination at this moment,\u201d Chief Bryant said. \u201cWe are just not there as of yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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