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A Texas crowd enraged when a vehicle struck a child who darted out into the street killed one of the car’s occupants Tuesday.
Austin police identified the victim as David Rivas Morales, 40. He was killed trying to keep the mob from attacking the car’s driver.
The child was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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Pictured above, Margaret Morales reacts, while talking about her brother, David, on the porch of her Austin, Texas townhouse, Wednesday, June 20, 2007.
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The crowd was celebrating “Juneteenth, a “black holiday” marking the day, in 1865, that General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, TX., with news of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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It is a “holiday” that tends to be celebrated with a surfeit of drunken violence each year, although it’s hard to figure out exactly why that is.
