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CASEY MICHEL at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/far-right-extremists-deadliest-ec699554d8c7/
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As Donald Trump ends his first year in office, an uncomfortable and unsurprising truth has emerged. As the Anti-Defamation League detailed in their newest report, the rate of fatalities attributed to white nationalists and far-right extremists surged over the past year, in comparison to the year prior.
The growth, as the ADL found, was stark. The number of white supremacist murders in the United States more than doubled in 2017 compared to the previous year, the ADL wrote, far surpassing murders committed by domestic Islamic extremists and making 2017 the fifth deadliest year on record for extremist violence since 1970. All told, white supremacists and far-right extremists were responsible for nearly 60 percent of extremist-related deaths in the U.S. last year, a spike from 20 percent the year prior.
The number of total extremist-related fatalities, thankfully, actually declined from the prior two years due in large part to the dearth of large-scale killings, as seen in years prior in the Orlando and San Bernardino shootings. Last year, the deadliest extremist attack came in New York, when Sayfullo Saipov killed eight in a vehicle attack in Manhattan. All told, the U.S. saw 34 extremist-related murders, a drop from 2016 (69 deaths) and 2015 (65 deaths), and a far cry from 1995, when 184 were killed, including those who died in the Oklahoma City bombing.
That said, the ADL report notes that the number of deadly incidents, if not necessarily fatalities, actually rose in 2017, with 19 instances of extremists murdering others, as opposed to only 13 instances in 2016. This comes in addition to the fact that 2017 saw some of the deadliest mass shootings the U.S. has ever known including, in Las Vegas, the single deadliest mass shooting the U.S. has seen in modern history.
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BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)And this is all due to him and not Obama (like the stock market).
That news of the ADL report must be fake since it is not a positive reflection of the moron's admin.