'A Perfect Storm:' Extremists Look For Ways To Exploit Coronavirus Pandemic
White nationalists and other far-right extremists see opportunity in the chaos of the U.S. response to the crisis.
For months, authorities say, 36-year-old white supremacist Timothy Wilson amassed bomb-making supplies and talked about attacking a synagogue, a mosque or a majority-black elementary school.
Then the coronavirus hit the United States, giving Wilson a new target – and a deadline. The FBI says Wilson planned to bomb a Missouri hospital with COVID-19 patients inside, and he wanted to do it before Kansas City's stay-at-home order took effect at midnight on March 24.
"Wilson considered various targets and ultimately settled on an area hospital in an attempt to harm many people, targeting a facility that is providing critical medical care in today's environment," the
