America's latest mass killing took the lives of seven people, including the gunman, who shot up a Sikh house of worship in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Law enforcement agencies want to know if Wade Michael Page acted alone. We talk with a criminologist who knew him as part of the hate-music scene. Since they first arrived in the US more than 100 years ago, Turban-wearing Sikhs have experienced brutal discrimination. They were the first targets of retaliation in the US after the attacks of September 11. Was this a hate crime or an act of domestic terrorism? How could it happen in a country based on tolerance of religious pluralism?
Personal Rage, Hostility and Deadly Gunfire
Credits
Guests:
- Don Walker - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - @DonWalkerJS
- Pete Simi - Chapman University
- Brian Levin - director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino - @proflevin
- Rajdeep Singh - Sikh Coalition - @sikh_coalition
- Vijay Prashad - Trinity College - @vijayprashad
- Paul Raushenbush - Huffington Post - @raushenbush