Buffalo shooting suspect charged with murder as a hate crime, domestic terrorism
Washington PostAPR 2022
The shooter saw himself as a soldier in a culture war that's been fostered by right-wing media and other figures on the Right that parrot claims related to "replacement theory." Now he's being rightly charged for his crimes.
Public evidence suggests the shooter was driven by "replacement theory" and his attack qualifies as a hate crime. But attempts to tie his blatant racism to conservatives' unrelated concerns about the Left's loose immigration policy is a shameless attempt to siphon voters away using hyperbole and false accusations.