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tonight, the nation is struggling to come to grips with another massacre, saturdays racially motivated shooting in buffalo, new york, was allegedly carried out by a white 18 year old man who traveled hours to a black community, or police say he opened fire at a supermarket. ten people were killed, three others injured. tomorrow, president biden and first lady jill biden will travel to buffalo degree with that community. earlier today, white house honoring public safety officers at the white house. biden spoke about the victims and their families. >> no one understands more than all o...

cities like charleston and pittsburgh and el paso and christchurch in new zealand that have been tragically been victimized by racist rampages and violent extremism fueled by racial hatred. the conversations across this country today do nothing for the families of the victims. they do not erase their pain or ease their horror of the loved ones' violent deaths, but at least we have a quorum willing to acknowledge the problem. the ideology that fuels saturday's mass shooting no longer sits on the absolute fringes of our society. ten people were gunned down, three others injured at a su...

Forms. it was this fetishization of mass death that you saw constantly from his posts and music videos. >> it's tough to tell, ben, but do you get a sense of what was driving this person of interest. what was driving crimo to violence? what were the reasons why? >> well, this is very difficult to say, because you don't wanna egg it on. but there is a community of people on the internet who are obsessed with mass death. and people who fetishes mass killers, this has been happening since basically columbine, but has accelerated in the age of social media and the internet. and you see a lot, in p...

Obsessed with mask that. and people who fetishes mass killers, this has been happening since basically columbine, but has accelerated in the age of social media and the internet. and you see a lot, in places like that, extremist forums where they have developed entire personalities based around the concept of killing people. they view it as like a scoreboard, the amount of deaths you can accrue in a mass killing. they talk about that afterwards as well. some of these forums talk about, they compare mass colors to previous mass colors, and say, he didn't do as well as this guy, something like t...

Previous mass killers, and say, he didn't do as well as this guy, something like that. that's part of the community that he was appealing to in these spaces. and you could see a lot, not just in his music videos, but in his posts across the internet. he was in other message boards, on the internet, that were literally just host of people being beheaded, or people being killed. he was a power user on those forums. it's basically a cult of death in these extremist forums. >> ben, kind of like a thick balance of a push pull understanding of why this crime, potentially happen today, if this person...