Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-05-08 22:05:31 UTC - SOMEWHAT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: E73D71F7F765DD14A604E23039E78A0547523F37DAE6BB1F9C9F368CEA94C823
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This is not the Allen shooter. Officials say the shooter did not have a criminal record and was killed at the scene-no arrest/mugshot. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/us/texas-mall-shooting-allen.html https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/allen-texas-mass-shooter-motivated-by-white-supremacist-beliefs-feds-1234731085/ Enrique Tarrio, a Latino man, was the leader of the Proud Boys, a far-right neofascist group considered white-nationalist by the FBI: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/tarrio-proud-boy-jail-sentence/2021/08/23/df06b84a-041b-11ec-a266-7c7fe02fa374_story.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/19/proud-boys-fbi-classification-extremist-group-white-nationalism-report?CMP=share_btn_tw https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/politics/jan-6-proud-boys-sedition.html
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