The View’s Ana Navarro shocked her fellow panelists and viewers after saying that being Hispanic or black doesn’t make you “immune to white supremacy.”
Nicaraguan-American Navarro, 51, was referring to Mauricio Garcia — whose bloody massacre killed eight people, including children, when he opened gunfire at a mall in Allen, Texas over the weekend.
The co-host pointed out that the head of the Proud Boys, a far-right neo-fascist organization, is also Hispanic – so it shouldn’t be surprising that the Texas gunman may have followed such extremist ideologies as well.
Your race does not make you immune to being racist, radicalized or evil, Navarro claimed.
Her comments were shocked by her fellow panelists.
Nicaraguan-American Ana Navarro, 51, told The View that your race does not make you immune to being racist, radicalized or evil. She was referring to Mauricio Garcia — whose bloody carnage killed eight people, including children, when he opened gunfire at a mall in Allen, Texas over the weekend.
DailyMail.com verified a photo of Garcia uploaded to a Russian social media account showing him next to a Hooters waitress at a Texas branch. It was uploaded alongside the caption, ‘Me at the Twin Peaks in Frisco on Preston Road. That’s a girl who knows how to make a boy smile. How to drive a man crazy.’
Navarro said in The View: ‘We all have to remember that the head belongs to the Proud Boys. His name is Enrique Tarrio.
The Proud Boys are a white nationalist group. See, being Hispanic or being Black or being whatever doesn’t make you immune to being racist, radicalizing, being white supremacist, being evil, being murderous.
And we see it over and over again. There are people who don’t see themselves as they are.’
Co-host Sunny Hostin added that the Texas shooter’s ethnicity was bizarre, “But this shooter who happened to be Hispanic and Latino, which is bizarre to me, had a nickname of white supremacy.
So Christopher Wray, these aren’t my words, so people don’t start with the “I’m a race baiter c**p.” Christopher Wray said the greatest threat to our democracy is white supremacy and domestic terrorism. He testified before Congress.”
Viewers have also been confused by Navarro’s comment.
Vernon Jones, a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001, said, “Liberals are tripping over themselves. The shooter in Texas was Hispanic. Leftist Ana Navarro calls the Spanish shooter a white supremacist. If he’s one, she’s one too.’
But others snapped back: “White supremacy” is simply the belief that white people are superior. That is it.
“There have always been non-white people who believe this. That said, I suggest waiting for more information before drawing any firm conclusions about his motives before making any claims.”
Posts also show a series of shirtless photos with white power tattoos on his body, including SS Lightning Bolts and a swastika
After the show, Navarro defended her words on Twitter: “WHERE’S THE LIE? The former leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, convicted of seditious conspiracy last week, is Afro-Latino.
“Having Spanish blood or black blood doesn’t mean you can’t think of yourself as a white nationalist and spread hatred.”
Garcia, 33, was named as the shooter. But a social media account linked to him was filled with photos of Nazis, guns and ammunition, as well as extremist diatribes about Jews, women and racial minorities, according to Bellingcat researcher Aric Toler.
In the weeks before he committed the senseless mass shooting at Allen Premium Outlets near Dallas, more than two dozen photos of the mall and its surroundings were uploaded to an account on the OK.RU platform, including Google location screenshots information that tracks peak visits times.
Both Toler and NBC said the account, on Russian site OK.RU, belonged to Garcia, who was shot dead at the scene.
DailyMail.com verified a photo of Garcia uploaded to the account showing him next to a waitress in a Texas Twin Peaks.
Another post appears to show the receipt for the guns and ammunition he bought in 2020 and eventually used to carry out the shootings.
The account also links to other sites, including a YouTube account with a video allegedly showing Garcia removing a “Scream” mask before asking in a modulated voice, “Not quite what you expected, huh?”
The video was uploaded before shooting, but according to Toler, would be published afterwards.
Pictured from left to right: Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Brooke Shields and Ana Navarro appear on an episode of The View in March 2023
Daniela Mendoza, 10, and her eight-year-old sister Sofia (pictured left) were among eight people shot dead at the Allen Outlet Mall in Texas on Saturday. Cindy, 35, Kyu, 37, and James Cho, 3, (pictured right) were all shot dead following the rampage in Allen, Texas, on Saturday. Their eldest son, William, survived the incident
Christian LaCour, 20, (pictured right) who worked as a security guard at the mall was the first victim of the mass shooting identified yesterday. Aishwarya Thatikonda (pictured left), who is originally from Hyderabad, India, was identified today by a family representative as one of nine killed in the massacre – including the gunman –
The OK.RU account contains posts referencing extremist online forums and content from white nationalists, including Nick Fuentes, an anti-Semitic white nationalist.
The Texas mall shooter scoured his crime scene to find out when it would be busiest three weeks before shooting eight people to death in a senseless massacre, it has been reported.
Other photos include a body armor that appears to match the one described by witnesses to the shooting, which features an acronym for “Right Wing Death Squad” — a popular meme among far-right extremist groups.
The Korean family Cindy Cho, 35, her husband Kyu, 37, and son James, 3, were all shot dead after the Allen, Texas, rampage.
Two sisters Daniela Mendoza, 10, and eight-year-old Sofia were also victims of the massacre.
Engineer Aishwarya Thatikonda, 27, and Christian LaCour, 20, who worked as security guards at the mall, were also killed in the massacre.
The last victim’s name was confirmed as Elio Cumana-Rivas, 32, of Dallas.