The View’s Ana Navarro shocked her fellow panelists and viewers after she said that being Hispanic or black does not make you ‘immune to white supremacy.’
Nicaraguan-American Navarro, 51, was referencing Mauricio Garcia – whose bloody massacre killed eight people, including children, when he opened gunfire at a mall in Allen, Texas, over the weekend.
According to law enforcement sources, 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia was the suspect behind a deadly mass shooting in an Allen, Texas, mall on Saturday.
While investigations are still ongoing, an anonymous law enforcement source claimed that federal officials are seeing if Garcia was motivated by white supremacist ideology.
The’suggestion came from alleged social media accounts by Garcia that spouted extremist views along with a patch on his chest that read, “RWDS,” supposedly an acronym for “Right Wing Death Squad.”
Though her co-hosts were surprised by the claim, Navarro insisted that the shooter’s Hispanic background should not bar him from becoming a white supremacist.
“We all have to remember that the head of the Proud Boys. His name is Enrique Tarrio. The Proud Boys is a white nationalist group.”
Navarro said
“Look, being Hispanic or being black does not, or being anything does not make you immune from being racist, from being radicalized, from being a white supremacist, from being evil, from being homicidal.”
“And we are seeing it over and over again. There are people who, they don’t see themselves as what they are,” Navarro said.
Though co-host Sunny Hostin remarked that the allegation was “bizarre” to her, she emphasized the threat of white supremacy to democracy.
“But this shooter who happened to be Hispanic and Latino, which is bizarre to me, had a white supremacy moniker on him. So, Christopher Wray, these are not my words, so people don’t start with the ‘I’m a race baiter’ crap.”
“Christopher Wray said that the biggest threat to our democracy is white supremacy and domestic terrorism. He testified before Congress,” Hostin said.
