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As local residents with Haitian roots watch the political crisis unfold from afar, they are asking American friends and neighbors not to rush to judgment about Haiti and allow it time to come to terms with the assassination of the president Jovenel Moïse on July 7, and the unrest it engendered.
“My body and mind could not accept that this happened,” said Jeantilus Geddis, a teacher at the Immigrant Learning Center in Malden. “This is a crime that is beyond hatred, beyond politics. Even if you don’t like the president, it is not right to kill the president.”