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Accused Chico library shooter flashes hateful ‘white power’ symbol in first court appearance since killing 2 59%
By Brad Appleton0% Ross O'Keefe0%
6/25/2026, 4:21:03 PM
Topics: Shooting, Hate Symbol
BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Confirmation Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 43.4% saturation with 125 hits. Analysis detected 995 faulty-reasoning hits from 288 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 55.4% and a BS Rank of 59% (9,038 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 58.70% of the article peer group.
The teen accused of opening fire and killing two inside a Butte County Library continued his campaign of hate by flashing the “white power” sign in court.
Bradley Scott Sayer, 18, was in court in Chico, California Thursday.
Sayer’s arms were shackled during the hearing and he was dressed in yellow long-sleeved jail garb with grey sweat pants.
As he entered the courtroom, Sayer flashed a hand sign associated with “white power.
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Sayer wrote “Natural Selection” in black marker on his white T-shirt in a bid to mimic the Columbine High School shooters during Tuesday’s attack, officials said.
Cops said the shirt represented his obsession with the massacre.
Columbine shooter Eric Harris wore a similar shirt as he committed an atrocity at his Colorado high school in 1999.
Butte County District Attorney Michael Ramsey said Sayer was a “fan” of the killing and ones like it.
“The suspect was a fan, and a fan for some time, of social media involving Columbine-type shootings, the school shootings, and had unfortunately a deep dive into that social media community, and obviously lost his way in that and decided yesterday to act in copycat,” Ramsey said.
Library staff heroically rushed the patrons of the building to safety, officials said, and Sayer allegedly fled the scene.
Arriving law enforcement seized Sayer outside the building without any use of force, officials said.
The entire incident only lasted around four minutes from the first 911 calls to Sayer’s arrest, Chico Chief of police Billy Aldridge said.
Eight rounds were fired, and the shotgun used was recovered at the scene.
Two other firearms were found in Sayer’s vehicle.
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