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September 4, 2018

Father of Mollie Tibbetts: Don't Use Her Death to Promote Xenophobia and Racism
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In Iowa, the father of murdered college student Mollie Tibbetts is
demanding politicians and white supremacists stop appropriating his
daughter's death to promote hate against immigrants. Authorities have
charged an undocumented farmworker from Mexico with first-degree murder
for her death. In an article for The Des Moines Register, Rob Tibbetts
wrote, "Do not appropriate Mollie's soul in advancing views she believed
were profoundly racist. The act grievously extends the crime that stole
Mollie from our family … The person who is accused of taking Mollie's
life is no more a reflection of the Hispanic community as white
supremacists are of all white people." Rob Tibbetts's column comes only
one day after the Register published a column by President Trump's
eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., in which he blamed Democrats for
Tibbetts's death.


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