On Saturday May 6, 2023, 33-year-old gunman Mauricio Garcia stepped out of his car at the Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas, and opened fire on shoppers with an AR-pattern rifle. Garcia killed 8 people before being shot dead by police officers, who were already at the mall responding to another call.
In the wake of the shooting, reports emerged that Garcia held neo-Nazi beliefs, and was wearing a patch on his plate carrier featuring the slogan "RWDS," which stands for "Right Wing Death Squad" and which was seen on the rigs of several Proud Boys and Three Percenters during the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It also emerged that Garcia had various social media accounts on which he posted neo-Nazi content and that he was involved in several neo-Nazi and white supremacist forums online.
Neo-Nazis and white supremacists reacted to the news of the shooting, and the details about the shooter's identity and beliefs. Extremists on Telegram, Gab, 4Chan, and other social media platforms were divided on the shooting. While some celebrated the violence and the shooter's beliefs, others used anti-Hispanic slurs to refer to the shooter and claimed that the shooting was an example of anti-white violence. Some posters claimed that the shooting was a false flag attack or had been manipulated in order to demonize white supremacist ideology.
The MEMRI DTTM project has monitored reactions to neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and other domestic extremist attacks, including the 2022 Buffalo shooting, the Uvalde school shooting, and the July 4 Highland Park shooting. The team will continue to monitor reactions and details as they emerge in the coming days, and this report will be updated with new content, including reactions from livestreams, podcasts, and other media content.
The following report will highlight reactions to the Allen, Texas mass shooting from neo-Nazi and white supremacist extremists online.
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White Supremacists And Neo-Nazis Claim Media And Government Are Concealing Details About The Shooting, Or Are Using The Attack To Frame And Demonize White Supremacy
A white supremacist published on his Telegram channel a post reading: "The FBI refuses to release tranny terrorist's manifesto but rushes to label this crazy Mexican amerindian a white supremacist. The feds are shameless and disgusting."
On Twitter, a fascist account published a post on May 7, claiming that the media has rushed to label anti-white violence as white supremacist.
Incels And Neo-Nazis Celebrate The Attack
In an incel forum thread, a user posted a link to a Rolling Stone article about the shooting. Another user wrote: "They want to bully us and they don't want us to retaliate. Neurotypical order at its finest. We can bully you all you want inkwell, you better be a good slave and not do anything against us." A third user commented: "Based and RightWingDeathSquadpilled."
Another thread on the incel forum elicited celebration. A user wrote: "Based BeanER." While a second commented: "eh fuck it, based beanery." "ER" is a reference to incel shooter Elliot Rodger, who went on a deadly shooting spree in California in 2014.
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