WaPo: “The gunman who killed eight people at an outlet mall in suburban Dallas posted photographs of the shopping center three weeks before the attack on a social media account where he fantasized about race wars and the collapse of society.
The social media posts, the last of which went online Saturday shortly before he stormed into the shopping mall, included violent, hateful references that included singling out Asians with slurs. Mauricio Garcia, 33, also used his account on Odnoklassniki, a Russian social media platform, to reference “the noble war,” a phrase that many white supremacists use to describe their belief in an impending race war.
On Monday, as Texans grieved over the state’s second mass killing in a little more than a week, authorities largely avoided discussing a possible motive for Garcia’s rampage.”