The FBI said Wednesday that the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando on Sunday was both a hate crime and a terror attack.
“This was an act of violence, born out of hate, that inflicted terror on an entire community,” FBI Agent Ron Hopper told reporters in Florida when asked how the shooting is being investigated. “So I would call it a hate crime, I would call it terrorism — it’s both.”
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