US shooter embraced racist ‘replacement’ theory online

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by Paul HANDLEY The teenager charged with shooting dead 10 African Americans at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York followed an insidious racist creed gaining ground among white Americans that minorities are taking over society. The 18-year-old suspect Payton Gendron took explicit inspiration from the white supremacist gunman who murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019. The Christchurch killer had warned in a manifesto of a “Great Replacement” of white […]