US outrage over Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric took a new turn this week after shootings at spas near Atlanta

This week, shootings at three spas near the US city of Atlanta, Georgia left eight people dead. Six of those people were women of Asian descent.

The public did what it does best when incidents of violence form an unmistakable pattern.

They prayed for the victims, called for gun control and, most of all, sought answers on the perpetrator’s motivation — any shred of detail that could help them understand whether it would happen again and whether, next time, it would happen to them.

This is how a 23-minute press conference became the subject of national outrage, the spark lifting a long-simmering conversation into a full-blown debate.

The 21-year-old man charged with murder told police he was suffering from a “sexual addiction” and had…