In The Name of Hate
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[music] Are you a shot fired 8.4, right? Not again. Yes, again. Not again. I'm Tracy Smith in Thousand Oaks, California, where a madman's bullet's left at least a dozen people dead. In America, this has become a devastating ritual. Two weeks ago, it was Pittsburgh before that parkland, Las Vegas, Charleston. Some of the victims were linked by faith, others by the color of their skin. Some simply because they were in the wrong place at the worst possible time. Our story tonight is about one young man targeted by hate. Meet Blaze Bernstein. He was 19 years old. [music] What do you miss most about Blaze? Yeah, that's it. His quirky personality. He was different. He liked to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. You went to OSHA together? Yeah, I started in seventh grade and he started in ninth grade. My hair will be white. The next day, I'll be wearing that little hair. A caring person. A good friend. I give you now Blaze Bernstein. A talented writer. Not only were six million Jewish people systematically murdered throughout Europe in concentration camps. I wish I could write like heroes. A wonderful cook. I wish I could cook like he cooked. [music] He was a risk taker. [music] And somebody who was just so smart. And you just want to sit back and say, "I can't imagine how wonderful the future of this person is going to be." Sam Woodward and I were classmates from seventh grade and tenth grade. How different were Sam and Blaze? Oh, they were so different. Probably about as different as you could be. Sam didn't really talk to many people. He always seemed to have a frown on his face. He would draw like war and like guns and stuff like airplanes dropping bombs. He seemed just angry. Yeah. Sam Woodward was linked to Adam Waffen members across the country. Adam Waffen is a small neo-Nazi organization whose members believe that they are preparing for this impending race war. At one point they had like over a hundred members. They had more than twenty cells across America.
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A brilliant Ivy League student is murdered after he went to a California park with a former high school classmate. Was he killed because he was gay and Jewish? Correspondent Tracy Smith investigates.