Michael on sunday night, the suspected shooter was detained by police last year after declaring that he planned to commit a murder suicide. At the end of this week end rampage, he appeared ready to fulfil his earlier plan, putting a gun to his neck, but officers persuaded him to drop the weapon and surrender. He now faces first degree murder charges. All ten victims of the shooting had been publicly identified - retired police officer aaron salter junior, roberta drury, celestine chaney, deacon, heyward patterson, pearl young, katherine massey, margus morrison, andre mc neil, geraldine talley and ruth whitfield,. The
Over the weekend, an 18-year-old man livestreamed himself shooting 13 people and killing 10. Within hours it became clear that the shooter’s intent was to kill as many Black people as possible. The suspect wrote online that he was motivated by replacement theory — a racist idea that white people are deliberately being replaced by people of color in places like America and Europe.
What are the origins of this theory, and how has it become simultaneously more extreme and more mainstream?
Guest: Nicholas Confessore, a political and investigative reporter for The New York Times.
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