Ana Navarro’s comments on “The View” are stirring up some debate online about the workings of white supremacy in America, especially as it relates to radicals who subscribe to white supremacist ideologies as a basis for committing mass shootings and killings.
On Monday, while speaking about Saturday’s mass shooting at a mall in Allen, Texas, Navarro said, “We all have to remember, the head of the Proud Boys, his name is Enrique Tarrio.
The Proud Boys is a white nationalist group,” Navarro said. “Look, being Hispanic or being Black or being anything does not make you immune from being racist, from being radicalized, from being a white supremacist, from being evil, from being homicidal, and we are seeing it over and over again.”
The shooter, 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, took the lives of eight people and injured several more at an outlet mall before a cop fatally shot Garcia.
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Investigators are looking into one of Garcia’s social media accounts where he spewed extremist beliefs about women, Jews, and racial minorities and also shared posts about his struggles with mental health. While the investigation is still in its early stages, officials are checking if Garcia was motivated by white supremacist or neo-Nazi beliefs.
Co-host Sunny Hostin responded to Navarro, remarking that while the shooter’s ethnicity is “bizarre” in this case, he also identified as white.
“But this shooter who happened to be Hispanic and Latino, which…
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