Parts of the Buffalo shooter's alleged screed were copied from other sources

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Following the mass shooting at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y., investigators say they are looking into a document published online filled with rants about race and the "replacement" theory.

The 180-page document, which was allegedly crafted by the Buffalo gunman, included parts lifted from other sources, according to an NPR analysis. Experts say this sort of mimicry is very common among mass shooters.

"It's not uncommon, especially in the neofascist space for people to take other people's work and sort of run with it," Matt Kriner, senior research scholar at the Middlebury Institute's Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, told NPR.

Kriner contested claims that the gunman's document was full of plagiarized material and instead said the shooter had copied it.

What the Buffalo shooter engaged in with his copying was "the transference of ideas from one violent actor to another," Kriner said.

"So when we're analyzing it, what we're looking for is how much of that narrative is going directly towards the justification of violence that he carried out in Buffalo? And how much does that line up with the justification of violence that we saw in Christchurch and elsewhere," he added.