It was a multi agency operation over the past week which led to the arrest of the target and foil his plan to perpetuate a mass shooting. cnn.com/2021/05/30/us/…
KCSO investigators had made contact and conversed with the target to confirmed his affiliation and networks within ideologically motivated violent extremist communities
Four days ago on May 27 KCSO had intercepted a message indicating that the target was preparing to proceed with a mass shooting and made specific threat that included WalMart as a target location.
The ideological material available to the target in the pictures are hard copy volumes easily available on sites like Amazon and eBay. As well as widely circulated in digital forms online.
Though networks and ecosystems are important in the analysis and identification of extremist threats, primary source material such as books and manifestos play a significant part in IMVE culture and the Radicalization to violence. This is an aspect that cannot be ignored.
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