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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 04:44 PM Nov 2015

Emails reveal racists plotted confrontation with Black Lives Matters activists days before shooting

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/emails-reveal-racists-plotted-confrontation-with-black-lives-matters-activists-days-before-shooting/

Demonstrators say masked men wearing military-style clothing have been harassing them for days during the protests, and Black Lives Matter Minneapolis posted a video Friday of two men on their way to disrupt the protests.

It’s not clear whether the two men in the video are connected to Monday’s shooting, and it’s not clear how Black Lives Matter obtained that video.

White supremacists have discussed various strategies online for sparking confrontation at the demonstration, which they described as a “chimpout.”

“Do you know if the BLM n*****s are planning to protest again tomorrow, and if so, at what time?” one white supremacist asked in an email chain.
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cwydro

(51,308 posts)
4. Oh I certainly know that.
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 05:01 PM
Nov 2015

But there are those on DU who tend to accuse the South of this stuff as though it doesn't happen everywhere.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
9. The Mason-Dixon line has been gerrymandered
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 06:08 PM
Nov 2015

Kinda circles every city in the country and spreads out across every state.

madville

(7,412 posts)
16. When I was in the military I was surprised
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 08:13 PM
Nov 2015

How racist some people from the Northeast and Western states could be. I was used to it in the South and had never really thought about how people in other regions acted on the subject.

Volaris

(10,272 posts)
11. As well as (apparently) Conspiracy to Commit.
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 06:12 PM
Nov 2015

So at least as far as the Feds should be concerned, this is a slam dunk of a case, and charge the whole fucking Sick Lot of them.
Only reason it wouldn't happen , is if the toddler butthurt GOP decides that this is somehow a witchunt against poor, abused, Repressed White Christian 'Murcan Culture,
and the Justice Department chickens out again

(They cowed down to these cretins when the report on Hate Groups was published a few years ago. If they hadnt, and acted instead, these gun-humping racist motherfuckers might have been behind bars for lesser crimes already, and this might not have happened.)

glinda

(14,807 posts)
12. Something will be done as there is little tolerance for this in Mpls.
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 06:13 PM
Nov 2015

The Mayor and Police Chief have both been working to address this and I suspect will ramp up the investagations.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
15. Police freak out at some single twitter line/post where 'they' feel 'threatened'.
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 07:20 PM
Nov 2015

Police totally ignored daily threats towards protestors.

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