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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEmails 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/Its not clear whether the two men in the video are connected to Mondays shooting, and its 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.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)They may be more numerous and blatant in parts of the south, but they're everywhere.
More recent updates at http://www.startribune.com/police-searching-for-suspects-who-fired-into-crowd-at-blm-protest-outside-4th-precinct/353154811/
cwydro
(51,308 posts)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)Kinda circles every city in the country and spreads out across every state.
glinda
(14,807 posts)madville
(7,412 posts)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.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)They livestreamed it too!
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)at it's worst.
Volaris
(10,272 posts)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.)
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)Orrex
(63,215 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)glinda
(14,807 posts)The Mayor and Police Chief have both been working to address this and I suspect will ramp up the investagations.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Police totally ignored daily threats towards protestors.