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- Mollie Tibbetts’ father wrote in a Des Moines Register op-ed that he wants people to stop using his daughter’s name to push “profoundly racist” views.
- The revelation that Tibbetts’ suspected murderer was an unauthorized immigrant from Mexico reignited a national debate over immigration — but Rob Tibbetts wrote that he wants his daughter left out of it.
- He urged Americans to “build bridges, not walls.”
The father of Mollie Tibbetts, the 20-year-old slain Iowa student, urged Americans in a Des Moines Register op-ed published Saturday not to use his daughter as a “pawn” to push racist views.
“Do not appropriate Mollie’s soul in advancing views she believed were profoundly racist,” Rob Tibbetts wrote. “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. To suggest otherwise is a lie. Justice in my America is blind.”See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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