Teen who shot students on same day as Kirk killing had 'white supremacist' and 'nazi' influences and views

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... in other words, right wing republican ideology.

Where's the national campaign from the WH to find and prosecute those violent influences in the U.S.?


DENVER (AP) — A teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass shootings including Columbine and expressed neo-Nazi views online, according to experts.

Since December, Desmond Holly, 16, had been active on an online forum where users watch videos of killings and violence, mixed in with content on white supremacism and antisemitism, the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism said in a report.

Holly shot himself following Wednesday’s shooting at Evergreen High School in Jefferson County. He died of his injuries. It is still unclear how he selected his victims. The county was also the scene of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre that killed 14 people.

Holly’s TikTok accounts contained white supremacist symbols, the ADL said, and the name of his most recent account included a reference to a popular white supremacist slogan. The account was unavailable Friday. TikTok said accounts associated with Holly had been banned.

https://apnews.com/article/colorado-high-school-shooting-e30769fe1b1d9667154e383cccc2c252

Colorado Shooter Desmond Holly Was Radicalised: The Question Now Is — What Extremist Network Was He Following?

While officials have not yet named the group, they confirmed that Holly appeared to have a 'mission' and was influenced by online content and communications.

A report from the Denver Gazette added a new layer to the investigation, revealing that Holly had used a 3D printer, gifted by his family, to create a 'QAnon-type mask.'

While not definitive proof of ideological allegiance, the detail suggests aesthetic or symbolic inspiration from conspiracy-driven movements like QAnon, which have been linked to other acts of violence in the United States.

Kelley stated that the radicalisation was not incidental. 'The details of that will be (released) down the road, but we wanted to at least give you that much about mindset for him,' she said.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/colorado-shooter-desmond-holly-was-radicalised-question-now-what-extremist-network-was-he-1743984


...where's the national campaign to root out these violent influences in the U.S. from this one-sided WH that just declared war against millions of Democrats for some unknown influence said to have influenced Kirk's shooter?

Nowhere to be found... just a campaign against Trump's and republicans' political rivals using the resources and high office of the presidency.

March 24, 2025
Trump Administration Abandoning Efforts to Combat White Supremacist and Far-Right Terrorism and Violence

About a month after Trump returned to the White House, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism’s (GPAHE) Global Extremist Symbols Database, the largest available with nearly 1,000 such symbols from around the world, disappeared from the Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL). The library, run by FEMA as part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was filled with information critical, according to the website, to government officials at the federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels, as well as the U.S. military. GPAHE’s symbols database, which is free of charge to all, is used by law enforcement at the local, national and international levels and by tech platforms to identify extremist groups, individuals associated with these groups, and symbols used as tattoos, and was only one of many important resources for confronting white supremacy and other forms of far-right extremism and violence that disappeared.

The FBI has cut staffing in an office focused on domestic terrorism and has scrapped a tool used to track such investigations, in a shift that could undermine law enforcement’s ability to counter white supremacists and anti-government extremists. FBI leadership recently transferred agents and intelligence analysts out of its Domestic Terrorism Operations Section, which supports investigations run from the FBI’s 55 field offices and provides information on domestic threats. It has been reported that only about 16 people had been reassigned from the section, which would have hundreds of employees if fully staffed. A different source said senior FBI officials have discussed disbanding it entirely, though a final decision has not yet been announced.
https://globalextremism.org/post/trump-abandoning-efforts-to-combat-white-supremacist/

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[617Blue]

1. So Trans?

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3. trans-interested

...confidentially, of course, in a brown paper wrapper.

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2. Damn, who would have thunk it.