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What the FBI’s Chris Wray said about white extremism two weeks ago

29 Killed After Two Mass Shootings Over the Weekend . Separate shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have left a total of 29 dead and 52 injured. In El Paso, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius is accused of opening fire at a shopping center and Walmart. . After killing 20 people and injuring 26, Crusius surrendered to officers. Crusius posted a racist manifesto against immigrants on the message board 8Chan just before the shooting. Federal authorities are treating the shooting as domestic terrorism,
By Jim Galloway
Aug 4, 2019

This part of his testimony was overshadowed by the Robert Mueller report, but here’s what FBI Director Chris Wray said to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the topic of violent white extremists on July 23:

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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