Leaked report, citing concerns of retaliation over ‘perceptions of police brutality against African Americans’, prompts fears of crackdown on activistsThe US government has declared “black identity extremists” a violent threat, according to a leaked report from the FBI’s counter-terrorism division. Anti-Trump protesters and Black Lives Matter activists have continued to face harsh prosecutions and close federal monitoring. Black Lives Matter – a movement protesting the disproportionate killings of black citizens by police in the US – had no ties to Johnson or other targeted killings of police and has condemned those shootings. BIE appears to be a very new term within law enforcement, Foreign Policy noted. The FBI document seemed to be aligned with far-right figures who have increasingly called Black Lives Matter a terrorist group, some comparing it to the Ku Klux Klan, noted Tajsar.

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2017 01:52 UTC