- A study on the growing frequency of “far-right attacks” was removed from the Department of Justice’s website
- The removal happened after right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on a college campus in Utah
- An archived version of the study is still available online, and states that “far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides” than the left
The U.S. Department of Justice appears to have quietly removed information online regarding right-wing violence following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
As of Friday, Sept. 12, a 2024 study titled “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism” no longer appears on the DOJ website under President Donald Trump‘s administration. However, it is still viewable as an archived post on Wayback Machine.
“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism,” the first two lines of the study read.
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