“What was I religiously? It doesn’t really matter at the end of the day. As a friend once said, my religion is the white race.”
The FBI is investigating the San Diego Islamic Center shooters, who livestreamed the attack as they killed three people on Monday and then took their own lives with one shooting the other, then himself. The pair of murderers left a manifesto detailing their views on white supremacist accelerationism.
The horrifying footage, which is spreading on social media, shows the shooters take the lives of three outside the mosque and then their eventual murder suicide. 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Velasquez (also identified as Caleb Vazquez) had met online and were both found dead.
Footage appearing to be from a body cam showed Clark and Velasquez storm the Islamic Center with their weapons drawn. They are seen standing over a body with pool of blood At some points in the footage, writing scrawled on the firearms can be seen.
One of the smbols on a firearms appeared to be a Odal Rune, which is a common neo-Nazi symbol. Other symbols seen on the guns resembled a swastika as well as the "SS," which appears to represent the Nazi Schutzstaffel. One gun appeared to have the n-word scrawled on it as well.
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After driving away, Clark appears to be sitting in the drivers seat and then grabs a pistol. He shoots his accomplice in the head and then turns on himself, shooting himself in the head under the chin, killing himself.
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The pair of shooters were found dead in the car a few blocks from the mosque after carrying out the horrific crime. Anti-Islamic writings were found on the guns while the "hate speech," per police, was also written on the guns.
The manifesto co-authored by Clark and Velasquez detailed the views of the shooters and included Nazi imagery. “I am a straight male. I am certainly not left wing, nor am I right wing — especially not with MAGA or Trump. Politically, I’d call myself a Third Positionist, specifically aligning most with National Socialism and eco-fascism, though any form of Third Positionism,” Velasquez said in the 75-page memo.
“What was I religiously? It doesn’t really matter at the end of the day. As a friend once said, my religion is the white race,” he added. In the manifesto, they described the 2019 New Zealand Christchurch mosque shooter, Brenton Tarrant, who they claimed to have modeled their attack after. They mentioned livestreaming the attack with a GoPro camera.
“Let me preface this by saying I don’t hate Muslims, at least not really. What I do hate is the religion of Islam itself and what I hate more than that is seeing them here, invading my country,” Velasquez said in the manifesto.
One section, which was titled, "Death to the World" and was sub-headed with "By Cain Clark." He included a long list of reason for his views on "Muslims," "the Jewish question," as well as "the beauty of war." He claimed to be an "average white man wanting to do the right thing."
Clark said he aligned himself with Adolf Hilter and added, “The modern left is retarded, and the modern right is foolish." The end of the manifesto said that the motive for the shooting was to “secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."
Clark wrote that he wanted to “burn this earth down and rebuild it into a new and better society."
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