On Friday, CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes suggested that “hate groups” like the KKK, Aryan Brotherhood and militia groups are to blame for the Dallas shooting.
Fuentes said, “I’ve reviewed a number of the cases that the FBI has had over the last few years involving militia groups and hate groups and KKK and Aryan Brotherhood and all these type of groups, and it turns out that Texas has the most hate groups of any state in the country.” (RELATED: Police: Dallas Suspect ‘Upset About Black Lives Matter,’ ‘Wanted To Kill White People’)
“And you hear reports that they’re out in the open land, or in the, you know, the fields practicing, shooting and shooting and shooting. So maybe they had military or he had military training, and maybe he just spent a lot of time practicing the shooting here.”
“We know one of the police officers was gunned down point-blank, and then he shot three or four more bullets on the officer on the ground. But some of these were a pretty fair distance. And even with an assault rifle, to hit your targets at that distance, you need to be able to aim well, you need some proficiency with that firearm.”
According to Dallas police chief David Brown, one of the suspects in the Thursday attack said his motivation was that he was “upset about Black Lives Matter” and “wanted to kill white people,” especially white police officers.
Brown later said, “The suspect stated that he was not affiliated with any groups and he stated that he did this alone.”
On Thursday, a sniper conducted an attack that left five police officers dead and seven others wounded.
Fuentes’s CNN profile says that he was a 29-year veteran of the FBI and was assistant director of the FBI’s Office of International Operations.