FBI, Homeland Security say threat of racially motivated copycat shootings growing online
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned in an internal memo issued Tuesday that the threat of racially motivated mass shootings is growing online, CBS News reported.
Tuesday's memo follows another DHS bulletin from early June warning that online forum users are pushing others to copy the Uvalde gunman's attack.
The threat stems from the spread of the manifesto written by the 19-year-old gunman who killed 10 people in a predominantly Black Buffalo, New York grocery store, just 10 days before the Uvalde gunman massacred 21 people at Robb Elementary School on May 24.
The FBI, alongside DHS and the National Counterterrorism Center, said in Tuesday's memo that the Buffalo shooter's 700-plus page manifesto was "intended to serve as a manual for future attackers" and will "likely enhance the capabilities of potential mass casualty shooters who may be inspired by this attack," according to CBS.
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