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CNNW CNN Special Report May 6, 2018

Percent people who cant protect themselves. This is where he shot the gun, the assault rifle. Tried to shoot the lock off. Hate in the real world. Jews will not replace us that all started online. For some reason they made me type in the words black on white crime. That was it. So whats at stake . The future we want to build and the society that we want to have. Tonight, spreading hate. The dark side of the internet. Jews shall not replace us jews will not replace us blood and soil blood and soil news of white americans mirroring the ku klux klan and chanting a nazi rallying cry. You can hear there the words of nazis, the torches from the ku klux klan. Theyre message echoing. People are disturbed by the chants and images from the march through living rooms across the nation. Your organization has been tracking hate for years. What was so different about charlottesville . It was literally the largest rally of its kind weve seen in well over a decade. Theres no question, something has changed. And its deeply troubling. This represents a turning point. Troubling because this white supremacist unite the white rally in charlottesville, virginia, defined a new daunting and divisive direction in our country. We are determined to take our country back. Reformed neonazi and author Christian Piccolini believes the khakis and their madeup moniker, all ttright, are just new name for an old hate. When you saw those torches, what did you think . Weve seen an metastisis. Their intolerance was met with resistance. The outbursts have been violent. The resistance was met with terror. One woman died in this crowd when that car suddenly accelerated and slammed into a group of people protesting against the White Nationalists. James alex fields jr. , then 20 years old, seen here in exclusive photographs obtained by cnn, marching alongside neonazis and other White Supremacists, hit the gas and drove his twoton Dodge Challenger straight into antiracist protesters. Fields injured 19 people and killed 32yearold activist heather. Here, where were filming right now, my best friend, i got the word that they were looking for heathers next of kin at the hospital, probably the worst day of my life. According to the fbi, hate crimes are up more than 11 since 2014. And just three months before heyers death, intelligence officials sounded the alarm within their ranks. In a leaked bulletin, the fbi and Homeland Security warned that members of the White Supremacist Movement likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year. My daughter heather was killed as she protested racism. Jews will not replace us and according to the Antidefamation League, white supremacist murders more than doubled in 2017. We need to be able to look in the mirror and say we have a problem here. A problem that has long plagued the United States. But piccolini says today White Supremacists feel emboldened by the white house. Many of the policies coming out of this administration are precisely the things we used to say 30 years ago in the White Supremacist Movement. We will not be replaced Richard Spencer has become one of the most wellknown faces of the movement. Do you believe youre spreading hate . No. I think the world is spreading hate. I mean, the world that were living in now is generating strife and unhappiness and fragmentation. I am offering a way out. I am spreading love. You just said the word love. And moments ago you said a torchliter rally was magical. You know how to dress, you know how to cut your hair, you know how to present yourself. But your speech is wonderful . Hate. Captivating . Hate. Who is a typical supporter . A typical supporter is young, obviously white, male, often very tech savvy. Millenials watch three youtube videos and theyre hooked. Hooked since 1995 when sto stormfront. Org became the first major website for White Nationalist. It is a platform that is encouraging this type of violence, that is radicalizing young people. Its created this ecosystem of hate. Hate that can turn deadly, when it leaves the internet and enters the real world. Whats so disturbing about stormfront for you . It can be found by a 12yearold with just a few clicks. Or a 21yearold looking to kill as many black people as he could. Coming up next, dylann roof and one of the deadliest hate crimes in modern u. S. History. 911, whats the emergency . Please, emanuel church, people shot down here, send somebody here right away. Hes shot the pastor. Come right away. Hes coming, hes coming. Legendary jockey Victor Espinoza is insatiable when it comes to competing. 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Hate will never win, is the message thats being sent. But hate would return. The killer of an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin. 17yearold Trayvon Martin was walking home when he was shot and killed. Summer 2012. Trayvon martin, an unarmed black teenager, is shot and killed by george zimmerman. Martins death and zimmermans acquittal reignited the american debate over race and justice. 17yearold dylann roof is sucked in. I looked his name up, type his name into google, you know what im saying . For some reason, it made me type in the words black on white crime, and that was it. We know dylann roof, some of his first searches were on topics like black on white crime, a key phrase for someone who might be adopting racist tropes as if this were the root of the problem. Black on white crime. Those four words would unlock a whole world of racially charged false statistics. Theres so much information out there. Its tough to distinguish whats real, whats fake, whats propaganda, whats parody. And its confusing for young people who are searching for an answer. In february of 2015, roof joins the white supremacist website stormfront. Org, interacting with other users and hoping to meet them facetoface. Four months later breaking news out of South Carolina. Nine people murdered in what police are calling a hate crime. A white man in his 20s walked into the bible study and opened fire. Dylann roof carries out one of the deadliest hate crimes in modern u. S. History. How did you find out about that . Did you research it . Yeah, i just looked up black churches. 59yearold Myra Thompson was one of the black churchgoers roof shot and killed. She was the reverends wife of 17 years. Police had the streets blocked off. And he kept saying, turn around. I was like, you need to get out of my way, i dont want to run you over, my wife is in that church, i heard theres a shooting. And i just lost it, for the first time in my life, i lost control. If it were not for stormfront, would those nine people in that ame church in charleston still be alive . I think that all those things contributed to the actions of dylann roof who walked in and murdered them. But i also feel very strongly that it was the foundation that was broken underneath him that led him to that place to begin with. Were not born to hate. Were not born racist. We learn how to do that. He knows that transformation well. In fact he used to write and perform white power music. You can see him here in this 1993 hbo documentary. Turns out dylann roof was a fan. Roof says he saw that documentary, privately asking another user on stormfront if he knew the name of piccolinis band. Did you know that dylann roof was actually on one of the white supremacist sites asking people if they knew about one of your white power songs that you wrote years ago . No. I didnt know that. Can i see that . Those are my lyrics. I didnt know that. What were you expressing in that song . I put these words out into the world 28 years ago. I wasnt aware of this. That was the purpose of the music, was to encourage people to be violent. Coming up. Im not saying that he put it in their hearts. Im saying some of those people already had it in their hearts and he just lit a match. I would like to punch him in the face, ill tell you. 2016, and a president ial candidates rhetorical bombs. You know what they used to do, they would be carried out on a stretcher, folks. Knock the crap out of him, seriously. Words that excited others. You will not replace us jews will not replace us that was a huge vehicle for the altright entering the mainstream. Ive been making blades here at gillette for 20 years. I bet im the first blade maker youve ever met. Theres a lot of innovation that goes into making our thinnest longest lasting blades on the market. Precision machinery and highquality materials from around the world. Nobody else even comes close. 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Are you concerned there could be more Mass Shootings like what you experienced in this church . Theres always a possibility. I would pray thats not the case. But if we do not do anything, then evil will continue to rear its head. When photos emerged of the emanuel ame shooter posing with the Confederate Flag, lawmakers and activists demanded that something should be done. 23 days after the charleston massacre, governor nikki haley removed the flag from statehouse grounds. That flag does not represent the future of our great state. But on White Nationalist websites like stormfront, the same sites that dylann roof frequented, exists an entirely different challenge. When nikki haley removed the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina state capitol, White Nationalists online were angered by this action by the state and they felt that the state were complicit in social movements. I am officially running for president of the United States. And at the same time, one of the most contentious president ial campaigns in recent memory was under way. How hateful did social media get during the president ial campaign . We did a study and looked at 12 months worth of twitter data gathered during the president ial campaign. We were astonished to find millions and millions of antisemitic tweets. However its impossible to know how many tweets were from real people. Chat bots can be used on sites like facebook or twitter or youtube, any social media site, to automate communication on that platform. So what the bot does is it looks like a person but actually its an Automated Software program thats running scripts to make it look like a real human. Bot or not, hateful messages were spreading on twitter. And it was twitter then president ial candidate donald trump used to communicate directly with voters. Its an asset. I tweet well. Trump might not get the validation that he wants in the media that his ideas are valid. But there are groups of people online, his twitter followers in particular, that support these ideas. Some ideas reformed neonazi Christian Piccolini says sound all too familiar. Trump says hes running for president. What did he do or say that made you sit back and say, uhoh . He was using fear rhetoric to gain support. When mexico sends its people, theyre bringing drugs, theyre bringing crime, theyre rapists. A total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States. His rhetoric all fit in line with the same fear tactics that i used 30 years ago and in fact the White Supremacist Movement has never stopped using. What piccolini lived, Darryl Johnson monitored. Johnson is the former Senior Analyst for domestic terrorism at the department of Homeland Security. You were monitoring White Supremacists, knew eeo nneonaz 1995. Why do they feel emboldened . The subject of building a border wall, the fact that we have an attempt to pass a ban on muslims traveling from different countries, these are things i saw on white supremacist Message Boards ten years ago. In november 2015, trump spreads fake black on white crime stats, we tweetingretweet claim that black people were responsible for 81 of the murders of white people, these false stats originating from a twitter account with a swastika avatar. All it was is a retweet. It wasnt from me. You saw the propaganda years back. Same thing that were seeing right now. The fake black on white crime statistics. White nationalists have forever used that to exploit racial tension in the community. We all know that its fake and that its not true. Theres absolutely no credibility to that. Right. White nationalists exploit the issue of black on white crime to hopefully radicalize someone into doing something violent. In january 2016, trump retweets the handle White Genocide tm. The profile uses the name donald trumpovitz. Trump re tweets the account in february. He also retweets breitbart, a website often using racially charged and misogynistic headlines and tags stories with the words black crime. By april of 2016, support for White Supremacy on twitter is off the charts. A study at George Washington university reveals a nearly 300 growth in followers of the movement from 2014 to spring of 2016. Dates that just so happen to overlap with much of Donald Trumps president ial campaign. And some researchers believe that is more than just a coincidence. He is what we call opening the overton window. This is a political theory where its becoming more and more acceptable to talk about things that used to be publicly off limits. In other words, White Nationalists felt emboldened, openly expressing hateful ideas. What i meet young people who are coming to the altright for the first time Richard Spencer, the man who made the term altright popular, saw his ideology in trumps rhetoric. It was a wonderful thing. In the sense that he was a nationalist populist. We were his vanguard. A mostly online movement, its difficult to define the altright. But its no doubt fueled by White Nationalists. I dont really like the term altright. It

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