San Diego attackers' hate manifesto targeted many groups, sought 'destruction of political system,' sources say - BERITAJA

The gunman who killed 3 group astatine the San Diego Islamic Center near down a 75-page archive that preached hate, anti-Islam and antisemitism and promoting unit and chaos, rule enforcement sources acquainted pinch the investigation told The Times.

The manifesto was titled “The New Crusade: Sons of Tarrant” and made reference to Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 group and injured 89 much successful an onslaught connected a mosque and an Islamic halfway successful Christchurch, New Zealand, successful 2019, the sources said.

The Times has reviewed the writings, which the sources said espoused dislike toward Muslims, Jews, Blacks and Latinos and the LGBTQ+ community. The sources remark anonymously because they were not authorized to speak publically about the case.

Investigators are trying to find a motive for the Monday attack, which they person classified arsenic a apt dislike crime. They person been interviewing family and friends of the suspects, who died of self-inflicted wounds arsenic constabulary closed successful connected them, and probed their integer footprint.

Although authorities person not named the suspects, sources person identified them arsenic Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez.

The Times recovered societal media accounts nether the usernames Cain identified arsenic his and those nexus to accounts showing schoolhouse shootings arsenic video games, and show the personification dressed successful camouflage, a skull mask, earlier a Confederate emblem wearing emblems associated pinch Nazism ideology.

Mark Remily, FBI typical supplier successful complaint of the San Diego office, said the suspects near down writings “outlining belief and group beliefs about really the world they envision should look like.”

But officials didn’t supply immoderate specifications about the writings aliases ideology, adding that they were still going done physics devices and examining the suspects’ online beingness to find really they were radicalized.

Federal officials besides executed 3 hunt warrants, which resulted successful the find of much than 30 firearms and a crossbow astatine 2 of the locations, Remily said.

Officials seized respective pistols, rifles, shotguns, ammunition, tactical gear, arsenic good arsenic electronics, he said.

“These suspects did not discriminate connected who they hated,” Remily said.

According to rule enforcement sources, the FBI is investigating a livestream provender of the onslaught aliases the aftermath from wrong the BMW that captures the suspects successful combat outfits that see Nazi symbols pinch guns visible.

The attackers opened occurrence astatine the halfway Monday greeting about 11:30 a.m., authorities said.

One of the guns had dislike reside written connected it, rule enforcement sources told The Times, and anti-Islamic writings were recovered successful a vehicle.

Earlier successful the morning, constabulary said, 1 of the suspect’s mothers frantically calling authorities to opportunity her boy had near a termination statement and that guns were missing. She told them her boy near pinch a companion wearing camouflage outfits. Officers were interviewing her erstwhile the first reports of the progressive shooting occurred.

An Anti-Defamation League study of the manifesto referenced “the awesome replacement theory,” the belief that achromatic group are being replaced successful their countries by non-white immigrants. The ADL cited a statement from the writings: “I judge that accelerating towards the demolition of our existent governmental strategy and towards an all-out title warfare for the intent of a societal illness is the only existent measurement forward…”

The penning reportedly besides cited different attacks including a wide shooting astatine a Jewish temple successful Poway respective years ago.