FBI says bigoted text messages also sent to LGBTQ, Hispanic people

The U.S. FBI said on Friday that a spate of offensive text messages sent out in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election win and apparently aimed at Black Americans had expanded to target Hispanic and LGBTQ people. In a statement, the bureau said it was aware of the messages, many of which used ethnic slurs and instructed the recipients to pick cotton, a reference to past enslavement of Black people in the United States. The FBI said on Friday that a new wave of messages was sent to Hispanics and LGBTQ people, with “some recipients reported being told they

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