Four Mass Shootings Have Been Thwarted Since the El Paso Massacre, Authorities Say
Since El Paso, Three Suspects Allegedly Linked to White Supremacy, White Nationalism, and Neo-Nazism Have Been Arrested for Threatening Attacks
It's too bad the leadership of the DOJ does not care about addressing this threat.
In the two weeks since the gun massacre in El Paso, Texas, federal and local authorities have thwarted four additional threats they said could have resulted in mass attacks. All four of the alleged plotters—in Nevada, Connecticut, Florida, and Ohio—were heavily armed young white men. At least three of the four appear to have harbored hateful far-right views, especially toward Jewish, African American, and LGBTQ people.
Since El Paso, Three Suspects Allegedly Linked to White Supremacy, White Nationalism, and Neo-Nazism Have Been Arrested for Threatening Attacks
On August 3, a deadly mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, (one of two shootings to take place that day) reignited a national conversation around racist violence. The shooting is being handled as a domestic terrorism case due in part to a manifesto the shooter posted, which attacked the Latinx community in ways rhetorically similar to how President Donald Trump has talked about the same community.
The same-day shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, have sparked a major FBI crackdown on shooting threats. On August 22, CNN documented the cases of 27 different people who have been arrested for allegedly making threats to commit mass shootings or to bomb specific locations since the August 3 mass shootings. Of those 27 cases, some are against government agencies or officials; one was made against a women’s reproductive health clinic in Chicago.
It's too bad the leadership of the DOJ does not care about addressing this threat.