Hate-based crime has been getting worse in recent years, largely cultivated in the cauldron of darkest reaches of the internet
, were quick to express their outrage, calling for more to be done to tackle the rise in hate-based crime in the US.
“We are shattered, extremely angered and praying for the victims’ families and loved ones, as well as the entire community”.murder of 21 people at a Walmart in El Paso, TexasIn El Paso, the gunman, a 21-year-old white male, also posted a document online, to extremist online message board 8chan, which stated the attack in the border town was “a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas”.in Charleston, South Carolina, left nine dead.
The San Diego killer claimed he was motivated by attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, a month earlier in which a white supremacist. Investigators there quickly established the killer had been radicalized online, had posted his own manifesto of hate and live streamed the killings. “President Biden should have a White House meeting of Black, Jewish, and Asian leaders to underscore the federal government’s escalating efforts against hate crimes,” he saidThe mayor of Buffalo, meanwhile, said on Sunday he believed the murders in his city will prove “a turning point”.