Read Trevor Aaronson’s insightful and revealing Article on what the FBI continues to do to the Black community as black people fight against racial injustice in the United States.
Christopher Wray still heads the FBI, even as these startling revelations come to light and the Republicans on the House weaponization panel attempt to paint a picture that makes it appear that there was a plot against right-wing activists.
While Donald Trump and the FBI were busy attempting to frame ordinary black protestors as terrorists, it is important to reconcile that white provocateurs were actually engaged in violence and arson.
White provocateurs were trying to get peaceful demonstrators to commit crimes through entrapment to provide evidence to bolster Donald Trump’s lies.
It is important to process Aaronson’s work with the knowledge that the greatest threat to national security is white supremacy/white nationalism.
The FBI, which has never had a Democrat heading the agency and has been reported to be a hotbed of conservatism, is now accused of being partial to the left.
Republicans projecting !!! (mb)
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Agents suspected these demonstrators could fit into a domestic terrorism ideology the bureau had defined during the first year of the Trump administration as “Black Identity Extremism”: a controversial, widely criticized catchall label for any domestic extremist ideology that drew a Black following. (The FBI has since abandoned the term in favor of a new category called “Racially Motivated Violent Extremism,” which combines white supremacist violence with so-called Black Identity Extremism.)
What’s been publicly known about the federal government’s activity during the summer of 2020 is astonishing: The Justice Department charged hundreds of people for their roles in First Amendment-protected demonstrations; the Department of Homeland Security deployed more than 750 agents, dressed in military-style uniforms, to Portland and abducted demonstrators in unmarked vans; and the Drug Enforcement Administration, using surveillance powers intended to stop drug runners, spied on more than 50 racial justice groups nationwide, among them a peaceful group that held a vigil on a public university campus in Florida.
Read the article here.…..https://theintercept.com/2023/02/07/fbi-denver-racial-justice-protests-informant/