Republican Senator Todd Young questioned whether the state’s red flag law had been enforced properly in the case of Mr Hole. Paul Keenan, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Indianapolis field office, said that Mr Hole had no “racially motivated violent extremism ideology”. Mr Hole was for a short period placed under psychiatric detention after his mother reported to law enforcement that he was considering “suicide by cop”.įBI agents found no crime had been committed when they interviewed him in April 2020. He was able to buy two assault rifles, one in July and another in September of last year, despite having had his shotgun confiscated after his mother called authorities and expressed concern about his mental health. Mr Hole was fired from the warehouse sometime last year. Police have said that about 90 per cent of the employees at the Indianapolis FedEx facility are members of the Sikh religious community. Law enforcement has yet to announce a motive for the shooting, but the Sikh coalition has called for an investigation into whether bias could have been a factor. The convention ballooned to as many as 10,000 fans, but organisers ended the forum after holding the last event in 2019, arguing that interest was waning. The first ‘Bron圜on,’ a gathering for fans of the show, was held in 2011 with 100 attendees. That has been a source of pride.”Īs the show came on air, many members of the subculture had links to the military. While the fan group is mostly made up of those who genuinely like the show, it has also drawn out paedophiles and white supremacists who share hate messages via fan art.Īssistant media-studies professor at the University of Georgia, Anne Gilbert, told The Atlantic in 2020: “This is a fan community that has prided itself on a permissiveness and pushing boundaries and cloaking themselves in irony and the idea that they can make the mainstream uncomfortable. But it also said Mr Hole’s posts showed no signs that this was part of his motivation for the rampage. So-called ‘Bronies’, a mix of ‘Bro’ and ‘ponies’, is a subculture of adult men fixated on the programme and “has displayed elements of far-right and white nationalist extremism,” the memo stated. While law enforcement hoped that Mr Hole’s online activity would help shed light on his motive for the attack, the Facebook memo said the gunman’s accounts were mostly focused on the cartoon show.
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