FBI cites black extremists as new domestic terrorist threat
The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., has spawned a violent domestic threat from “black identity extremists” who have stepped up attacks on police, according to an explosive new report by the FBI’s counterterrorism division.
The warning, first reported by Foreign Policy magazine , says that “it is very likely BIEs proactively target police and openly identify and justify their actions with social-political agendas commensurate with their perceived injustices against African Americans ...”
Brown, an African-American 18-year-old, was shot in August 2014 after struggling with white police officer Darren Wilson. Although Brown's supporters claimed it was a deadly case of police brutality, Wilson was cleared of wrongdoing and resigned in November 2014.
Police officials said that Wilson stopped Brown after getting a call about a robbery at a convenience store in which the clerk was strong-armed after the suspect – with whom Brown was a match -- attempted to leave.
Wilson and Brown got into a scuffle as Brown reportedly reached for the police officer’s gun, and Wilson then gave chase, shooting him. Brown's family said he had his hands up when he was shot, police said it was untrue.
The shooting led to protests in Ferguson that then spread to other parts of the country. It gained added momentum after subsequent racially charged police shootings, spurred on via social media and the group Black Lives Matter.
The FBI report said that the agency previously had analyzed the potential for violence of black identity extremism, a term that was unfamiliar before it appeared in the document. What has changed, according to the report, is that violence has now actually occurred and is 'likely" to continue.
“It is very likely that BIEs’ perceptions of unjust treatment of African-Americans and the perceived unchallenged illegitimate actions of law enforcement will inspire premeditated attacks against law enforcement over the next year,” the report said. “It is very likely additional controversial police shootings of African-Americans and the associated legal proceedings will continue to serve as drivers for violence against law enforcement.”
Attacks in which police officers are targeted have been on the rise in recent years. The most high-profile such incident occurred last year in Dallas, when a gunman named Micah Johnson hid in a parking garage and fired on 11 police officers, killing five of them, during a protest against officer-involved shootings. The FBI report noted that Johnson referred to anger over police shootings and toward whites as what drove him to kill the five police officers.
The FBI report drew accusations of racial profiling.
DeRay Mckesson of Black Lives Matter told The Guardian the terrorism report echoes the days when the FBI tracked activist groups including the NAACP and those that opposed wars.
“We knew that we were likely being watched,” said Mckesson, a longtime critic of government monitoriing of protest groups. “This is confirmation that the work of social justice continues to threaten those in power.”
The Guardian also quoted an unnamed source it described only as a former senior official from the Department of Homeland Security saying that the category "black identity extremist" was troubling.
"This is a new umbrella designation that has no basis," the source is quoted as saying. "There are civil rights and privacy issues all over this."
But others say that the FBI is correctly sounding an alarm about a serious trend.
"It's not racial profiling, it's violence profiling," Scott Walter, president of Capital Research Center, a conservative think tank, told Fox News. "Identity politics can kill, whether it's white identity politics, which killed in Charlottesville, or black identity politics, which kills cops."
"We have to be able to distinguish between free speech and violence," Walter said. "[Many] longtime [black] activist groups were not obsessed with violence."
Randy Sutton, a former Las Vegas law enforcement official who now is the national spokesman for Blue Lives Matter, told Fox News that the FBI report makes official what he and others in police work have been observing in recent years.
"Nobody is saying anything negative about protests," Sutton said, "Protesting is everyone's right. This is about commiting acts of violence. Many Black Lives Matter protests call for violence against police, with chants like 'What do we want?' and 'Dead cops!' It's terrorism, and it's no different than Islamic terrorism."
Sutton said the rising number of ambush attacks on police has had a chilling effect on how they do their jobs.
"Police are not being as aggressive because of the political climate," he said. "There's been a dramatic decrease in proactive policing."
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The FBI has accepted the obvious
About time...
This isn't going to sit well with some.
Pretty much a guarantee this wouldn't have happened if Hillary had won. She actually apologized for saying all lives matter.
i just love silly things like this. and i love reading the suckers that expose themselves by commenting on it.
this is a garbage hit job. ok blm exist, big deal. haven't seen them run someone over with a charger car. like this summer.
and yet i cant think of any Norwegians or swedes or Italians that can say that while there history of being in america, has had them lost family members or friends consistently to the actions of police killing them even when they are unarmed.
so hummm again this idea that blacks have gone extreme is bull.
the question is how much crap would you put up with when you have tried every regular avenue to effect change?
For an example.... a job..........when people come home and complain about the treatment at the job, most people say. have you tried this or that. and then when that person says they have. what is the next things that are spoke about? well how much more of it will you take be fore you LEAVE and find another job. humm
IMHO, therein lies the problem. The FBI report linked in the seed states that there have been a total of 6 targeted attacks since 2014. The report also states that those targeted attacks are an exception to the rule.
NOWHERE in the FBI report does it mention the BLM movement as being connected to BIE activity. So despite what Randy Sutton said, the FBI doesn't 'make official what he and others in police work have been observing in recent years'. In fact, just the opposite. None of the 6 cases in the report are labeled as terrorist acts in the report.
Y'all actually READ the report right? The 'Analysis of Alternatives' is particularly interesting since it clearly refutes Sutton's and Walter's BS.
sadly your suggestion that BLACKS have not tried to as you said,
is bull. blacks have tried to go to meetings at the city level, at the county level at the federal level, all to effect how policing policy's need to be changed.
and if you want to be honest, (try to be that way) think about all the videos where water cannons were used, dogs were used , meeting places were burned all because blacks wanted to meet to figure out a way to BE TREATED EQUAL. now this is based on history, from years we both probably were not alive, but those FACTS ARE KNOWN.
so lets jump to the present. blacks have sat in on town meetings, meet with administrators, made statements to the media about lack of access to meet with legislators who can vote to change laws.
And yet here you are with this sentence as if the FIRST THINGS done is a protest. once again the disconnect.
Why the disconnect because YOU AND THOSE like you dont have to deal with it. thus how can know something that you have never experienced.
To the the part of your SWEPT your own problems under the rug, which would those be? aaah gangs, like run there operations like......................the MAFIA? Drug use, like the folks who smoked dope and yelled love and peace, and they turned out ok. black on black crime, where getting ahead on the streets is based on what you get when someone appears to be able to be taken advantage of, like ponzi schemes and white collar crime. I mean which problems?
again i appreciate your sensitivity to point out issues in the black community, but sadly like MOST folks that cant be honest, were not speaking about what goes on within the black community, we are speaking about WHAT IS HAPPENING to the black community.
And sadly the worst part about replies like yours is that ............it is really trying to address a PROBLEM IN THE WHITE COMMUNITY, which is ...trying to control the racist ones among them.
if white people (which has happened more often lately) called out and express out rage at those white racist acting cops, alot of this stuff would not end up in protest. But sadly most GOOD COPS are not in control or in power in many police stations or in administrative positions to effect enough change TO GET RID of bad racist minded cops.
until that becomes important to the white community, bad acts caught on tape but those racist minded cops will keep happening because they feel empowered and safe. What are you willing to do about it?
well sadly you have exposed to others that you cant speak to this type of stuff honestly.
it is always interesting to me how many folks - are always ready to act as if what blacks have pointed out to whites about the ones who are RACIST as if it is some made up children's story.
and yet...... one of the best examples that is relative is bullying. what is bullying? it is when someone decides to attempt to physically engage a person they find lesser then themselves. funny how THAT IS SO the way racist white cops act.
now here is the deep thought part....................how does anyone one know when there is a bully.........they dont until that bully acts out. JUST LIKE racist cops do.
meaning there are good white cops that act respectful and honest and maintain integrity every day in hoods across america and in cities and in the suburbs. but guess what...............the racist cops dont.
so again, we are talking about the bad cops and the ones who treat blacks differently just because they can, not because they have to or because they should(per the oath they took)
By the way...............i love how your memory is so short.....Charleston. how about MPLS last summer - i mean really. this is EXACTLY WHAT this topic is about. white folks unaffected by death of people they know or relate too, thus they dont have to care about police killing them because it does not happen frequently enough to invoke anger.
But yet it is funny how this white woman dies and 3 black men up here have been killed before her, but no changes to police administration.
but this white woman dies and the police chief is out..............funny how that works.......
The dramatic drop in proactive policing will only last for so long. It is when the police finally decide that they will not be the target anymore, is the time to watch for.....
Only law breakers have reason to fear cops. and anyone who attacks a cop, is by definition a law breaker...
Comedy! The balls of Fox News! They propagated that lie with an edited video, to the point they even had to admit and apologize for it! The truth is NO BLM protest ever did that chant!