An ADL report on ‘Murder and Extremism in the United States’ reveals that the number of deaths caused by extremist attacks dropped in 2022. All of the extremist-related murders ADL tracked in 2022 were committed by right-wing extremists, with the vast majority coming from white supremacists.
ADL labeled 25 murders in 2022 as “extremist-related,” with 18 of those “committed in whole or part for ideological motives.”
Two mass shootings, one in May in Buffalo, New York, wherein an avowed white supremacist fatally shot 10 Black people, and another in November in Colorado Springs wherein five people were killed in an LGBTQ nightclub – accounted for most of the extremist-related murders of 2022, the report showed.
White supremacists commit the highest number of domestic extremist-related murders in most years, but in 2022 the percentage was unusually high: 21 of the 25 murders were linked to white supremacists, according to the report.
ADL’s Center on Extremism reported an overall decrease from 2021 when 33 extremist-related killings were documented. ADL had documented 22 extremist-related killings in 2020.
