Was the Rhode Island Shooter a Neo-NAZI?

 Looks like it:

Multiple images and videos on the Facebook account linked to the suspect show a heavily tattooed individual.

Screenshots of these images have since widely circulated on social media.

The word Totenkopf translates literally as “dead person’s head” and the insignia was adopted by the Stabswache, Hitler’s bodyguard. This unit then grew into the Schutzstaffel or SS, which used the Totenkopf as insignia.

International anti-hate organization the Anti-Defamation League, states on its website: “Following the war, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists resurrected the Totenkopf as a hate symbol because of its importance to the SS, and it has been a common hate symbol since. It is this particular image of a skull and crossbones that is considered a hate symbol, not any image of a skull and crossbones.”


 



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