A white nationalist enters a Walmart in El Paso, Texas and murders 23 people, injuring 23 others. It’s believed to be the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern U.S. history.

The 21-year-old shooter was inspired by a manifesto written by an extremist synagogue shooter in New Zealand. He even wrote his own manifesto, denouncing a “Hispanic invasion” and “environmental degradation.”

In the manifesto, he wrote that he wanted to kill as many Hispanics as he could.

Sources

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/20/el-paso-shooting-plot-white-supremacist-attacks

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/05/analysis-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory-has-inspired-white/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/04/whats-inside-hate-filled-manifesto-linked-el-paso-shooter/

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/26/trump-domestic-extemism-homeland-security-401926

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting

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