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WHAT IS ‘RIGHT WING DEATH SQUAD’? INVESTIGATORS PROBE TEXAS MALL GUNMAN’S TIES
TO FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISM


THE SHOOTER WHO CARRIED OUT THE MASSACRE AT ALLEN PREMIUM OUTLETS, OUTSIDE OF
DALLAS, WAS WEARING A TACTICAL VEST EMBLAZONED WITH THE ACRONYM “RWDS.”

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TEXAS OFFICIALS SAY MALL GUNMAN HAD "NEO-NAZI IDEATION"

During a press conference on Tuesday, a representative from the Texas Department
of Public Safety said the motive behind the shooting at a mall in Allen on
Saturday in which eight people died was still being investigated but that the
gunman, identified as Mauricio Garcia, who was killed by police, had "neo-Nazi
ideation."


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Dylan Stableford
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Tue, May 9, 2023 at 1:45 PM EDT·5 min read


The gunman who killed eight people before he was fatally shot by a police
officer at a Dallas-area mall on Saturday was wearing a tactical vest with a
patch that read “RWDS,” an acronym which stands for “Right Wing Death Squad” — a
phrase that has been embraced in recent years by far-right extremists.

Law enforcement officials are exploring whether the shooter, identified as
33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, had expressed an interest in white supremacist
ideology and neo-Nazi views as they look for a motive for the attack.

Here’s everything we know about the phrase and investigation, culled from our
original reporting and trusted partners, including the Associated Press, NBC
News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram.


THE ORIGINS OF ‘RWDS’


People identifying themselves as members of the Proud Boys join supporters of
then-President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2020. (Jacquelyn
Martin/AP)

According to the AP, the term “Right Wing Death Squad” originated in the 1970s
and was used to describe Central and South American paramilitary groups who
supported right-wing governments and dictatorships and opposed perceived enemies
on the left.

Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism,
told the news service that “RWDS” reemerged in the 2010s among some right-wing
groups, who used it on stickers, patches and in online forums.

“It essentially became a phrase that was co-opted to demonstrate opposition to
the left more broadly by right-wing extremists,” Segal said.

Right Wing Death Squad was the name of the smaller groups that participated in
the white nationalist Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August
2017.


A PHRASE POPULARIZED BY THE PROUD BOYS


Trump supporters, along with members of the far-right group Proud Boys, attend a
rally to protest the results of the 2020 presidential election in Washington,
D.C., on Dec. 12, 2020. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)

According to Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and
Extremism, the Proud Boys — a neofascist group of self-described “Western
chauvinists” — are largely responsible for popularizing the use of “RWDS” among
the far-right.

Following the 2020 election, members of the Proud Boys joined supporters of
then-President Donald Trump at rallies protesting the results.

Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and other leaders of the group were
photographed wearing RWDS patches at those demonstrations.

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Last week, Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the
Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.


INVESTIGATORS EYE ‘WHITE SUPREMACIST IDEOLOGY’


Officers with the Allen Police Department staff the mobile command post the day
after a gunman shot multiple people at the Dallas-area Allen Premium Outlets
mall. (Jeremy Lock/Reuters)

Given the RWDS patch worn by the Texas shooter, investigators quickly zeroed in
on his social media accounts in search of a possible motive.

According to NBC News, a preliminary review revealed “hundreds of posts” that
expressed interest in white supremacist and neo-Nazi views.

AP reports that posts made by Garcia on a Russian social networking site showed
“a fascination with white supremacy and mass shootings, which he described as
sport.”

And photos he posted showed what appeared to be large Nazi tattoos on his arm
and torso, including a swastika and the SS lightning bolt symbol of Hitler’s
paramilitary forces.

Other online activity suggests the 33-year-old had researched when the shopping
center, located in one of the Dallas area’s most diverse suburbs, would be the
busiest.

"The big question that we're dealing with right now is, what's his motive? Why
did he do this?" Hank Sibley, regional director of the Texas Department of
Public Safety, said at a press conference Tuesday. "We don't know, that's what
the investigation is trying to find out. We do know that he had neo-Nazi
ideation. He had patches, he had tattoos, even his signature, you know, verified
that."


HOW THE SHOOTING UNFOLDED


Robert Jackson comforts his mother, Cheryl Jackson, by a memorial near the scene
of the mass shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets on Monday. (Joe Raedle/Getty
Images)

According to police, the shooting began around 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Allen
Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas, about 25 miles north of Dallas, when a man
armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and wearing tactical gear opened fire.
Eight people were killed and seven others were injured before the gunman was
fatally shot by a police officer who happened to be at the mall.

Among those killed were Christian LaCour, a 20-year-old security guard;
Aishwarya Thatikonda, a 27-year-old Indian engineer; and three members of a
Korean American family: Cho Kyu Song, 37, Kang Shin Young, 35, and their
3-year-old son.

The Texas Department of Public Safety later identified the gunman as Garcia, who
lived in the Dallas area. NBC News reported that police recovered an additional
handgun at the scene, more weapons and ammunition in his car, and the tactical
vest emblazoned with the RWDS patch.


People visit a makeshift memorial near the scene of the mass shooting at the
Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas, on Tuesday. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“Nobody is going to accidentally have a ‘Right Wing Death Squad’ patch,”
American University professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss, director of the school’s
Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab, told the AP.

But extremists who adopt these terms and symbols often don’t fully understand
their origins, Miller-Idriss said.

“Because of this whole meme culture, and generally the way that iconography is
used to signal encoded speech or messages, they don’t always know exactly,” she
said.





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