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Latino Claims Right Wing Press Did Him Dirty

April 15, 2024
A man who shares the same name as Allen, Texas mall mass shooter Mauricio Garcia is suing outlets like Fox News for misidentifying him as the gunman. His lawyer asks if a person with an Edgar haircut and their girlfriend’s name tattooed on their neck is likely to be a neo-Nazi.
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Mauricio Garcia, 36, is suing several media organizations for libel, alleging that they used his photo to misidentify him as Mauricio Martinez Garcia, who committed the Allen, Texas mall shooting in May 2023.

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A Latino is suing several right wing media outlets for misidentifying him
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as a mass shooter.
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And part of his case is that his haircut was used to
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stereotype him. What kind of haircut we talking about,
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Jenny, the Edgar haircut in his lawsuit.
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36 year old Mauricio Garcia says that outlets like Fox News and
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News Max used his photo to misidentify him as the shooter who
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killed eight people in an Allen Texas mall in May 2023.
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He is also suing several Far right podcasters.
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So they basically use the fact that he had a Edgar haircut
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to misidentify him as the bad guy.
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That's crazy. And the real gunman.
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Same exact name, 33 years old white supremacist who had neo
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nazi social media posts was killed by police on the scene after
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shooting 15 people leaving a dead.
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So imagine getting mixed up with that guy.
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Yeah, the same exact name literally like someone has your name
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and then like they commit this crazy tragedy like crime and they
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put your picture up there and you're like,
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dude, what the hell?
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Like I didn't do that shit.
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I just hope all the jean Carlos Fernandez is out there behaving
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So his lawyer said that the news channels used Garcia's Chicano
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appearance, including his low rider style and Edgar cut to try
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to prove that the shooter was not a white supremacist.
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So his lawyer that he has right now,
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he's actually the same lawyer that represented the parents of Sandy Hook
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So I don't know if you know what happened with Sandy
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Hook that people were saying it's a hoax and this and that
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and sending disturbing messages to the parents and this same lawyer that's
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representing, this guy is represented the parents of the Sandy Hook
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tragedy. So this guy got this.
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Lord definitely has experience and will probably get him paid.
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These people are trying to paint him as the person that committed
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this crime because of his appearance,
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Garcia is seeking more than $1 million in damages.
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You think you think that's enough to cover up a mess up
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like that? A million.
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How much you need Jenny dude?
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Honestly like II I think like just to,
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to paint you as a mass shooter dro PC.
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It's permanent, you know.
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Yeah, it's like your face and following you,
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it, it's dangerous,
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it's dangerous but any who we'll,
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we'll keep you guys posted with,
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with updates of this story and we'll move on.