Police in Allen, TX were terse in their admission that the killer in the latest mass shooting, at an outlet mall outside of Dallas over the weekend, had white supremacist beliefs. It is unsurprising, of course, that police in a suburban county that voted for Donald Trump might be less than enthused talking about how the shooter embraced an ideology that's been fired up by the sympathies of the current GOP leader. Unsurprising, as well, that journalists who followed up found that the situation was far uglier than these law enforcement hints were allowing.
The excellent team of far-right investigators at NBC News got the grim details of what Mauricio Garcia, 33, was up to online. His social media profile was a smorgasbord of every flavor of fascist subgroup that dwelled in the bowels of the internet, and now on Elon Musk-led Twitter. Garcia was into neo-Nazi stuff. He repeated all the incel garbage. He posted photos of himself wearing a "Right Wing Death Squad" patch, which was worn by at least one of the Proud Boys who participated in the January 6 insurrection. He was a fan of Nick Fuentes, dining companion of Donald Trump and an admirer of Hitler.
