By The Star Staff
The assassination attempt on former president and putative Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in western Pennsylvania on Saturday was an act against democracy and “a demonstration of the rampant violence reigning in American society,” said José J. Taboada de Jesús, president of the Puerto Rico Police Association.
“The attempt to assassinate former President Trump confirms the ‘serious mental health problem’ that affects a large part of the U.S. and Puerto Rican population,” Taboada de Jesús said. “There is no doubt that in the great nation, including the United States and Puerto Rico, there are organized cells that sponsor the goal of destabilizing the federal and state governments. There has been corroboration by security agencies that individuals have gathered to plan attacks and in some cases they have even infiltrated the spheres of the government to obtain information and support their intentions that, in the main, [are] accompanied with violent acts. The matter is complicated when we see that the State of Texas has placed bullet dispensaries that any person can access by inserting money or a credit card in a machine in open areas to supply himself with bullets to commit criminal acts.”
The police association leader said Puerto Rican agents work in Butler, Pa., where the attack occurred Saturday. Some of them have abandoned Puerto Rico and have moved to Pennsylvania in search of a better quality of life. The small town north of Pittsburgh has a population of more than 13,000 people, with Hispanics representing nearly 48% of the total population, Taboada de Jesús said.
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