"He does not at all mention anything about terrorism, nor does he mention anything about hate," Austin police Chief Brian Manley said. "There is not a domestic terrorism crime as such," FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a Senate hearing in September. "We in the FBI refer to domestic terrorism as a category, but it's more of a way in which we allocate which agents, which squad is going to work on it." But Jackson also faces a terrorism charge in the case -- murder as an act of terrorism in the first and second degrees. Federal officials work with a very specific definition of when something is an act of domestic terrorism.

Source: CNN March 22, 2018 18:45 UTC