Plans of two potential attackers were thwarted in the U.S. on Friday, and a far-right assailant attempted a shooting at an Oslo mosque on Saturday
Pallbearers on August 9 wheel the casket of Angelina Englisbee, 86, who lost her life in the El Paso mass shooting at Walmart. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images Let’s begin on Thursday — just five days after a white-nationalist assailant killed 22 people in a mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart — when a report emerged that appeared to show the Department of Justice suppressing a study detailing white supremacists’ responsibility for all race-based domestic acts of terror in 2018.
A couple thousand miles away, in Winter Park, Florida, a white supremacist was arrested on Friday for threatening to shoot up a Walmart. In addition to a manifesto espousing white-nationalist views and anti-immigrant rhetoric, 26-year-old Richard Clayton reportedly posted on Facebook: “3 more days of probation left then I get my AR-15 back. Don’t go to Walmart next week.” Despite the threat, he was not on probation.
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