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British MP shot and stabbed dead by man shouting ‘Britain First’

Labor member of Parliament Jo Cox, in a 2015 fphoto. AP file.

Credit: Jim Galloway

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Labor member of Parliament Jo Cox, in a 2015 fphoto. AP file.
By Jim Galloway
June 16, 2016

Worrisome news here. From the Washington Post:

Police did not provide a motive for the killing. But British media organizations including the Guardian and Sky News quoted witnesses as saying that the assailant shouted "Britain First!" during and after the attack — a slogan linked to anti-immigrant groups.

“America First,” of course, is the slogan of Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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