Dallas's details have not yet
confirmed -- whose details have
not yet been confirmed.
>> The shooter or an extremist
insignia and left behind a
social media trail of whites of
premises beliefs.
Authorities confirmed his
neo-nazi affiliations, but were
cautious to say if he was
targeting anyone specifically
for their race, age, or
ethnicity when carrying out the
attack.
He joins a growing list of
individuals with far right
extremist views who commit acts
of mass gun violence.
An expert on all of this,
including the white supremacist
movement, joins me now to
discuss what she has uncovered
about the gunman.
Welcome back.
You have been doing your own
investigating into the gunman's
background.
What does the evidence show you
about the kinds of groups he was
linked with?
What were his beliefs?
>> He was actually deep into the
world of white supremacy and
neo-nazi-ism.
He was on websites like the
daily Stormer that were
connected with this.
He had read a race war novel
that inspired the Oklahoma City
bombing, and he left 10 years'
worth of diary entries that are
filled with the worst heat you
can imagine against Jews,
muslims, lgbtq people, and
others.
>> There are reports he was
wearing an rwds patch on the day
of the attack.
What does that mean?
>> It stands for right wing
death squad, which is a
reference to the Chilean
dictator, pinochet's time in
office where he had death squads
that killed communists, which he
perceived as his enemies, and
threw them out helicopters.
People in right wing movements
like the proud boys where these
patches proudly and celebrate
that time in Chilean history.
They like the idea of death
squads.
The idea is spread all
throughout the internet as a
meme you see in whites of
premises and other extremist
groups.
What we have any idea when or
how he began to be radicalized
to hold these views?
>> The diary entries actually go
back to when he was in high
school or at least he refers to
being in rotc, and refers to
doing things like salutes to
hitler's at that time and being
criticized by a teacher and
talks again about his very short
stint as the army before they
threw him out, and meeting white
supremacists and becoming a
white supremacist at the time.
This is a long process going
back to at least 2008 hour 2009.
>> Thought is have identified
the gunman as a 33-year-old man
named Mauricio Garcia, who is
not white, and it is confusing
to many Howard person of color
could hold white supremacist
views.
>> He writes in his diary of a
period of self-loathing where he
hated the fact that he was
hispanic.
People should understand that
the attraction of white
supremacy can cross race.
People want to be identified
with what they consider,
especially if they were
radicalized like this
individual, the most powerful
institutions of society.
He's not the only one.
The head of the proud boys who
was just convicted for seditious
conspiracy related to January 6,
is an afro-cuban, and there are
other examples, such as its very
naive to think that somebody
cannot choose to have a
different ethnicity to identify
as white and be involved in
these movements just because
they were born of a different
ethnicity, and people should
understand that.
>> Allen, Texas, is a very
diverse area.
Collin county is home to Texas'
largest and fastest growing
population of minority groups.
Would someone who holds these
kinds of use and has a
proclivity for violence, with a
target an area like this?
>> Yeah, we don't know exactly
what the motive of this
individual was, but it is
possible given this history of
white supremacy and deep hatred
for so many minority populations
that he may have chosen the mall
for that reason.
That is not evident in his
writing's, but he does scope out
the mall and layout plans for
the attack in those writing's.
We just don't know the exact
motive.
>> We report often about the
connection between online
hateful rhetoric and real-world
violence.
We have any knowledge, any
statistics about how quickly
these kinds of mass attacks or
mass shootings are carried out
by people who hold these far
right extremist views?
Do we know that?
>> Well, we have had several
major attacks -- for example,
the tree of life synagogue in
Pittsburgh, the El Paso Walmart
shooting from a few years ago,
last year, the shooting at a
Buffalo supermarket that
targeted black people, where the
individuals involved were
radicalized online, and they all
believe something that this
shooter also believed, that
there is some kind of a great
replacement going on, white
people being displaced by people
of color and immigrants, often
viewed as something being driven
by Jews or globalists, so the
online space is probably the
biggest factor in causing people
to be radicalized into violence.
>> Thank you so much for joining
us tonight, helping us to
understand this a little bit
better.
Thank you for your time.
>> Thank you.