hate-crime-nathan-allen

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"Shortly thereafter, a Winthrop Police sergeant shot and killed Allen, after repeatedly asking him to drop his weapons.

The dramatic scene unfolded in the quiet Massachusetts suburb of just more than 18,000, about six miles east of Boston. Now, authorities are investigating the killings as hate crimes, citing a preliminary investigation that found “troubling white supremacy rhetoric” by Allen, who wrote of the “superiority of the white race” and drew swastikas, Rollins said in a statement Sunday.

The incident comes as acts of violence fueled by hate and white supremacy are on the rise in the United States. Since 2015, there have been 267 plots or attacks by right-wing extremists and 91 fatalities, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. In March, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray acknowledged a rising tide of domestic terrorism and called it a “top concern.”

Although prosecutors have not concluded Allen’s alleged actions were hate crimes, Rollins pointed out Sunday that Allen drove the stolen truck at twice the speed limit toward Winthrop, where there are several Jewish temples. “We don’t know where he was going; that is mere speculation,” she told reporters. “We do know he had antisemitic rhetoric written in his own hand.”

Asked by a reporter whether Allen targeted Green and Cooper, who were both Black, Rollins said that after he crashed into the residence, Allen “walked by several other people that were not Black, and they are alive … and these two visible people of color are not.”

What I find interesting in the debate over "who's really the problem, white supremacists, AntiFa, etc" in example after example it's the people following white supremacist and associated right wing ideologies ideologies who are going out and killing people.

I also hear people claiming that the things pointing out the problem, are the problem. No, "critical race theory" isn't the problem. The problem is people like this going out and killing people and if they are triggered by critical race theory, that's not a problem with critical race theory. What I suspect is happening is the people for whom the problem doesn't impact don't want to go through the pain of dealing with it because then it does impact them. They are more than happy to keep it swept under the rug, as long as the bad things are happening to someone else.

I got money says someone brings up a black person killing a white person.