Heres what we know about the white supremacist group linked to the Florida shooter
LUKE BARNES at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/parkland-white-supremacist-florida-1814434b9bf8/
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The white supremacist group claiming Parkland shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz as a member, Republic of Florida (ROF), glorified mass shootings, consumed far-right propaganda, and included “lone wolf activists” in their organizational chart.
Early on Thursday Jordan Jereb, leader of ROF, told the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that Nikolas Cruz had participated in several training exercises with the ROF, a claim which was later backed up by Cruz’s classmates. Jereb then told the Daily Beast that Cruz likely used the training with the ROF to carry out his mass shooting, where 17 people died, although local law enforcement have said that they haven’t yet found any links between Cruz and the ROF.
“Nobody I know told him to do that, he just freaked out,” Jereb said. “ROF had not ordered or wanted Cruz to do anything like the school shooting.”
Despite Jereb’s protestation of innocence, an examination of Jereb’s account on Gab, a social that caters to white nationalists, shows it as a group where an alienated young man like Cruz could easily be inspired to commit a mass shooting. On the group’s organizational chart, there is a section emphasizing “lone wolf activists”.
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