NEW YORK — Within the pages of the alleged Buffalo shooter's plan to attack a Buffalo, New York supermarket, he described the radical ideals he said he cultivated on the internet.
It included racist and antisemitic rants reminiscent of the sentiments espoused by shooters who committed similar atrocities in El Paso, Texas, and Charleston, South Carolina, in recent years, according to an ABC News review of the document.
White supremacists don't just look like white-hooded Ku Klux Klan members from the history books, experts said. "The last two years -- 2021 and 2020 -- were the highest recorded years of domestic terrorism, plots and attacks, so the trends are pretty concerning," CSIS Senior Vice President Seth Jones said in an interview with ABC News.
"It's a movement of hatred and violence," Morial said."This is not someone just ranting on the internet." Experts said there are two routes to combatting white supremacist extremism in America -- personally and through policy.
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