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Lawyer Murdered In Texas By Guy Blaming Her For Conducting 'Abortions By The Manner Of Magic'

How did the killer get to this conclusion? The victim flew a Biden flag, of course!

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It’s hard to imagine a more grimly ironic bookend to Texas banning abortion by way of vigilante lawsuits while simultaneously eliminating even the barest of gun regulations and passing a law to bar social media companies from moderating hateful conspiracy mongering than the details finally coming out about the murder of El Paso lawyer Georgette Kaufmann.

Kaufmann was killed in November right after the election. The killer ambushed her outside her home and then tried to force his way inside, shooting Kaufmann’s husband in the process.

Police arrested a suspect, Joseph Angel Alvarez, last week and say he’d targeted the Kaufmanns based on their proximity to a local park. That and… all of this:

Alvarez said in the email that Memorial Park was the location of a “ritualistic satanic ground to conduct abortions by the manner of magic,” the outlet reported. He also allegedly said in the email [ATL note: police found an email supposedly from Alvarez] that he targeted the Kaufmanns’ house because he believed they had voted for President Joe Biden and had a Biden “flag and a doll of Trump hanging.” He also called pro-choice people the “Jewish Satanist Party,” the outlet reported.

This is what you get when you start calling birth control murder, build a culture obsessed with guns, and then let the nuttiest corners of the internet spin new Pizzagates every 10 minutes. And this all happened before Texas pushed the dials on all three of those toxic factors up to 11 this month.

A lot of people will read this story and say that the gunman is deeply disturbed and that it’s unfair to tie this case to the broader culture of Texas. Obviously most Texans aren’t going to go down this road. But this is what radicalization looks like. Give someone craving meaning in their life a made-up culture war and easy access to weaponry and this is what’s going to happen eventually and it doesn’t really matter that 99 percent of folks won’t take it this far — the ones that do end up killing people.

Texas Lawyer’s Murder Was Fueled by Anti-Biden Fury & Satanic Delusion, Cops Say [Daily Beast]

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HeadshotJoe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.

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