Bullet holes are seen in the window of Tops Friendly Market at Jefferson Avenue and Riley Street, as federal investigators work the scene of a mass shooting on Monday, May 16, 2022, in Buffalo, NY. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images WASHINGTON - The number of U.S.
mass killings linked to extremism over the past decade was at least three times higher than the total from any other 10-year period since the 1970s, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League.The report, provided to The Associated Press ahead of its public release Thursday, also found that all extremist killings identified in 2022 were linked to right-wing extremism, with an especially high number linked to white supremacy.
They include a racist mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 Black shoppers dead and a mass shooting that killed five people at an LGBT nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.RELATED: Buffalo mass shooter sentenced to life in prison during emotional hearing"It is not an exaggeration to say that we live in an age of extremist mass killings," the report from the group's Center on Extremism says.Between two and seven extremism-related mass killings occurred every decade from the 1970s to the 2000s, but in the 2010s that number skyrocketed to 21, the report found.The trend has since continued with five extremist mass killings in 2021 and 2022, as many as there were during the first decade of the new millennium.Wayne Jones, the only child of Buffalo mass shooting victim Celestine Chaney, spoke directly to the killer responsible for his family's pain, during a sentencing hearing on Feb.