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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI investigated civil rights group as 'terrorism' threat and viewed KKK as victims
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/01/sacramento-rally-fbi-kkk-domestic-terrorism-californiaBureau spied on California activists, citing potential conspiracy against the rights of neo-Nazis
Sam Levin in Oakland
The FBI opened a domestic terrorism investigation into a civil rights group in California, labeling the activists extremists after they protested against neo-Nazis in 2016, new documents reveal.
Federal authorities ran a surveillance operation on By Any Means Necessary (Bamn), spying on the leftist groups movements in an inquiry that came after one of Bamns members was stabbed at the white supremacist rally, according to documents obtained by the Guardian. The FBIs Bamn files reveal:
The FBI investigated Bamn for potential conspiracy against the rights of the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists.
The FBI considered the KKK as victims and the leftist protesters as potential terror threats, and downplayed the threats of the Klan, writing: The KKK consisted of members that some perceived to be supportive of a white supremacist agenda.
The FBIs monitoring included in-person surveillance, and the agency cited Bamns advocacy against rape and sexual assault and police brutality as evidence in the terrorism inquiry.
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FBI investigated civil rights group as 'terrorism' threat and viewed KKK as victims (Original Post)
G_j
Feb 2019
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malaise
(269,157 posts)1. Institutional Racism from top to bottom
The FBI investigated Bamn for potential conspiracy against the rights of the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists.
Get thee to the greatest page
Get thee to the greatest page
G_j
(40,370 posts)2. Stranger than fiction
but not surprising
malaise
(269,157 posts)3. No surprise at all