The shooter's vest had a patch with an insignia associated with violent, far-right extremists.
Scripps News identified images from the Texas shooter's social media showing a tactical vest with a far-right extremist patch, posted in April. They were first shared by Aric Toler, with Scripps partner Bellingcat.Analysts say they have been seeing the insignia for some five years often on violent, far-right extremists. The insignia was also featured on Proud Boys who burned a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church in the nation's capital weeks before the Jan. 6 riot.
"The phrase right wing death squad got resurrected in the United States because right wing extremists here admired the violent forces of Latin American dictators who did things like throw communists out of helicopters to their deaths. And so they were sort of trying to suggest that they were the they had inherited that that attitude against the left wing," said Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism.
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