Fmr. FBI Profiler: MN Officials Shooter Had Extreme Ideology of People’s Religion, Lifestyle

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O'TOOLE: "Well, again, he doesn‘t seem to have a criminal record. He had a record where he looked like he was financially reckless. He had an extreme ideology in terms of, you know, people‘s religion, people‘s lifestyle, and all of those things can really come together at somebody‘s life, especially if they don‘t have a way to reach out and get help to better understand how they‘re feeling or how to fix the problems in their life. That can cause them to make some pretty extreme behaviors. But I think there‘s something else that I expect to see in this case — could be wrong, but I‘d be looking for it. Once you decide to take such extreme action that you want to annihilate somebody because of their belief systems in lifestyles, in their outlook, on their religious beliefs and so forth, there will be a self-righteous tone in that manifesto or in his musings that say, 'This is something I didn‘t want to do. This is something that I had to do, and I‘m the one that‘s that had to do it.'"