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( Law enforcement officials said Patrick Crusius allegedly was looking for a good place to
shoot Mexicans and returned to the store armed Courtesy of ABC News and YouTube . Posted on
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5 , 2019 .)
Radicals exploit social
media seeding discord with
misinfor- mation and disinformation
. Portions of the populace are mes- merized by such extremist pre- cepts that offer easy
solutions to baseless grievances
blamed on newly found or long-targeted ascribed enemies .
Perpetrators globally mimic ter- ror targets and the means of at-
tack irrespective of ideology .
One should recognize that
radicals may undertake their attacks
in areas outside their geographical bases s
. Segments of radicals in the
Unit- ed States ( e . g ., some hate
group actors and militias ) can be char- acterized as
accelerationists : those seeking to start an up- heaval precipitated by a notable attack .
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