Former police officer argues FBI pushed him to support terrorism
... "Nicholas Young was a police officer, sworn to uphold the law," Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg said in his opening statement Monday, but instead helped a man he believed was trying to join the Islamic State. "Young didn’t arrest <his friend>, he didn’t report him, but he said, 'Let me give you some advice.' "
Young, the prosecutor said, believed in an alliance between white supremacists and Muslim extremists against Jewish people: "Young's hatred of Jews was quite extraordinary" ...
Young is the first police officer in the country to be arrested on terrorism charges, and the rare terrorism defendant to challenge those charges rather than plead guilty. He hopes to .. be the first person since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to win at trial by arguing he was entrapped ...
He is accused of buying gift cards so Islamic State recruits could purchase encrypted messaging applications and lying about a friend's travel to Syria to join the group ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-police-officer-argues-fbi-pushed-him-to-support-terrorism/2017/12/12/dc812230-deaf-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html?utm_term=.54ca45948008
We could have prevented this simply by forbidding white people to serve as police officers!
