James Scurlock, a 22-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a white bar owner on Saturday night in Omaha, Nebraska, during a George Floyd protest. Witnesses said the gunman used racial slurs before the shooting. #JamesScurlock

The gunman is the owner of two Omaha bars, and he described himself as a libertarian, a former Marine, and a 2016 volunteer for the Trump campaign. His bars have received social media complaints that they discriminated against Black patrons. #jamesscurlock https://t.co/N2Yi3VN8eV pic.twitter.com/MeNyQbRIWQ

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 1, 2020

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stochastic terrorism

[ stuh-kas-tik ter-uh-riz-uhm ]

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noun

the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted:

The lone-wolf attack was apparently influenced by the rhetoric of stochastic terrorism.