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That erupted into a frenzy in which he killed people all around him. if that's the case i don't know that his background as a white supremacist will be relevant. however, if it's charged as a hate crime, if he's charged with killing people because they were, say, black or mexican, latino, gay or whatever it may have been then they undoubtedly will at least try to bring his white supremacist background into the case. >> so we don't know yet whether he was targeting people based on race. we do not know whether this was some planned or something that erupted but we do know that he has a backgroun...

Jumpsuit does he look like he's shackled? >> yes. they put him in that suit maybe to make sure that any biological forensic evidence on his body is not lost as they transport him or it could be -- i don't know what he was wearing at the time. but it looks like that's our suspect. >> okay. is that typical police protocol? i honestly have never seen that before paul. >> i'd like to tell you that i don't truly know. >> the breaking news tonight, a suspect with reported white supremacist ties in custody in mesa, arizona. and the question's now emerging about his past and motives. joining me now is...

To have fuelled the killers and the assault last week on a courthouse in georgia. joining us is mark potok of the southern law center and arnis. mark, you say with terms of what these people were, the connection to the bundy ranch is for you the most telling aspect in all of this. can you explain that? >> yeah. i think so. i say that because the bundy ranch standoff and its outcome which was that the federal government retreated in the face of armed threats from militia men and the bundy family and so on was seen as a spectacular victory by literally thousands, probably tens of thousands or ev...

Still here. no matter how horrible things have gotten throughout slavery and genocide, there has been an equal if not greater response of compassion so that response is really where the salvation lies. >> mark, though, in terms of kind of just logistics, though, without, you know, an online presence to track, how does one go about -- how does the government go about stopping this kind of thing? there are a lot of groups watching this saying it's -- conspiracy theorists and believe it's a false flag operation. i hear from these looneys all the time. >> yeah. they're already saying that. harry r...

Family finding out your husband and wife gone off to work and that's it? fine. innocent because we have got the sick, sick cowardly people out there that just decide to express themselves all the time with bullets and we see it repeatedly across this country. >> reporter: joseph wilcox was shopping at walmart. police say he had a concealed weapon and tried to confront a gunman. he was shot and killed. his friend was with him and believed wilcox prevented the killers from targeting other victims. >> i wanted to tell him, don't do this. come with me. i also felt that he's possibly going to be sa...