The shooter, who obtained his guns legally and modified at least one of them into an illegal assault weapon, live streamed the massacre. Prior to the shooting, the killer published a screed claiming that “critical race theory”-a recent right-wing talking point that has come to generally encompass teaching about race in school-is part of a Jewish plot and a reason to justify mass killings of Jews. Thirteen people- 11 of whom were Black- were shot while grocery shopping. Just a few days after the shooting in Dallas, on May 14, an 18-year-old white man radicalized by far-right extremism drove several hours to a predominately Black neighborhood to commit a bigoted act of domestic terrorism. Hate crimes against AAPI individuals have skyrocketed since 2020, when former President Trump began espousing rhetoric that Asian people caused the virus. Just over a year later, on May 11, 2022-during Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month- three Asian women were shot at a hair salon in Dallas, Texas, a shooting which investigators think may be connected to other recent shootings at Asian-owned businesses in the area. The very next day, six Asian women and two other individuals were shot and killed at three different spas in the Atlanta area in targeted acts of hate. "In the UK, we are very aligned to risks that might present and what are the consequences that might follow across Europe.On March 15, 2021, Giffords Law Center first released this report examining the rise of hate-fueled extremism in the United States. "It's very early days in relation to the conflicts in Ukraine to understand what that will mean," he said. In that period, police also investigated the Novichok nerve agent attack on double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, and have charged three suspected Russian military intelligence officers with attempted murder.Īsked about any increase in a threat from Russia in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine, Jukes said they were determined to "to detect and disrupt those people who might be in the UK with that type of hostile intent". Overall since 2017 when Britain suffered five deadly attacks, Jukes said 32 plots had been foiled, of which 18 were linked to Islamist terrorism and 12 to far-right extremism, and they currently had about 800 live investigations. "But we are absolutely seeing some of that shift to plans to carry out terrorist attacks." "There is a picture here of young people who are spending a great deal of time discussing and sharing and exchanging material online," he said. Whilst Jukes said most offences involved sharing terrorist material online, others had moved to attack planning. Įarlier this week a 15-year-old boy was charged with terrorism crimes. Last February, a boy who headed a neo-Nazi group and carried out his first offence aged just 13 was convicted of terrorism offences, while last July, another 13-year-old was arrested and later admitted possessing information useful to a terrorist. Of the 20 children arrested, 19 were linked to far-right ideologies. In 2021, out of 186 terrorism arrests, just over 40% related to suspected extreme right wing terrorism. "This is a group which is substantially younger than we have seen in the past."īritish police have warned for some time about the rise in far-right extremism, but Jukes said those involved were getting younger. "We're talking about boys principally 14, 15 years old," Jukes told reporters. Matt Jukes said youngsters, mainly boys in their early teens, were becoming self-radicalised online and then progressing to actually planning terrorist attacks. LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) - Britain's head of counter-terrorism policing said on Thursday the police had serious concern about a rise in the number of young people and children becoming caught up in far-right extremism.
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