by Chris Riotta

June 17, 2017

 

President Donald Trump announced he was running for office on June 16, 2015. The following day, white supremacist Dylann Roof opened fire in a historically black church located in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people in the hopes of launching an all-out race war.

Of course, those two events aren’t directly linked. “But it’s certainly symbolic,” Heidi Beirich, director of Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, tells Newsweek.

“There doesn’t seem to be a single marginalized population that was left out of the emboldened reaction to this election,” she said. “There has been a massive explosion of violence across the country, and an increase in the number of hate crimes against virtually all minority groups. The numbers are definitely going up in 2017.”

 

Full article:

http://www.newsweek.com/dylan-roof-massacre-racist-fake-news-sites-causing-rise-hate-crimes-626922