An 18-year-old broadcast the shooting on the Twitch online video platform.
A gunman in military uniform and bulletproof vest opened fire from a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing at least 10 people before detaining him. This was reported to the Associated Press by law enforcement officials. As it turned out, it was an 18-year-old boy, he broadcast the shooting live on the platform for online video broadcasts Twitch. According to some reports, he attached the camera to his helmet.
Surveillance video shows an armed man dressed in military gear approaching a rifle shop in the front seat and then pointing a gun at people in the parking lot when getting out of the car and opening fire. It also shows the suspect entering a supermarket and shooting several other victims.
The investigation is at an early stage, and authorities have not yet identified a clear motive, but are investigating whether the shooting was racially motivated. Some sources say that the shooter, Frank Mortenson, is known to have published a manifesto online describing himself as a supporter of the white supremacy theory. superior to other people in terms of race, based on the research of some theorists. The idea of white supremacy is based on ethnocentrism and the pursuit of political and economic hegemony. It is often a reaction to positive discrimination or, for example, a migration crisis.
Among the well-known representatives of this controversial racist movement is neo-Nazi Andrew Englin, who is also misogynistic and believes that some women need to be “locked in cages”, anthropologist Virginia Abernetti, Fraser Enning, who opposes anti-Muslim rhetoric, Sabino Arana, Don Black, a representative of the National Socialist Party of the White People.
