DHS halts planned funding for anti-white extremism group
Source: Politico
By DANIEL LIPPMAN 06/23/2017 06:57 AM EDT
SCOOP: The Department of Homeland Security is restarting a stalled $10-million grant program for Countering Violent Extremism this morning. Life After Hate, a group dedicated to deradicalizing neo-Nazis and stopping white extremism, was slated to get $400,000 in the final days of the Obama administration (http://bit.ly/2sxsh6x) before the program was halted for review, but the Trump administration dropped them from the new grant list thats getting announced today.
The group has seen a twenty-fold increase in requests for help since Election Day from people looking to disengage or bystanders/family members looking for help from someone they know, the organizations founder Christian Picciolini told us. The Denver, Las Vegas, and Seattle police departments are some of the big cities that are getting six-figure grants to fight extremism. Los Angeles and Denver are also among the cities getting money. DHS did not comment last night on why Life After Hate was dropped.
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BumRushDaShow
(129,622 posts)Because the strategy is to stoke the hate silly! (<--or maybe not)
iluvtennis
(19,880 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)Trying to reduce the level of racist hatred and white extremism goes against everything Fornicate Face and his groupies want to see happen in the US.
Initech
(100,107 posts)I see the positive of this!
karynnj
(59,506 posts)The first sentence says the program is being restarted. The end of the paragraph says it was dropped from the grant list.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)jmowreader
(50,566 posts)If we pay to deprogram Trump's base, they might not vote for him in 2020.