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LEAKED DOCUMENTS SHOW POLICE KNEW FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS WERE THE REAL THREAT AT PROTESTS, NOT ANTIFA
Ryan Devereaux at The Intercept
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-police-far-right-antifa/
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AS PROTESTS AGAINST police violence spread to every state in the U.S. and dramatic images flooded in from cities across the country, President Donald Trump and his attorney general spun an ominous story of opportunistic leftists exploiting a national trauma to sow chaos and disorder. They were the anti-fascists known as antifa, and according to the administration they were domestic terrorists who would be policed accordingly.
But while the White House beat the drum for a crackdown on a leaderless movement on the left, law enforcement offices across the country were sharing detailed reports of far-right extremists seeking to attack the protesters and police during the countrys historic demonstrations, a trove of newly leaked documents reveals.
Among the steady stream of threats from the far-right were repeated encounters between law enforcement and heavily armed adherents of the so-called boogaloo movement, which welcomes armed confrontation with cops as means to trigger civil war. With much of the U.S. policing apparatus on the hunt for antifa instigators, those violent aspirations appear to have materialized in a string of targeted attacks in California that left a federal protective services officer and a sheriffs deputy dead and several other law enforcement officials wounded.
The cache of law enforcement materials was recently hacked and posted online under the title BlueLeaks, providing an unprecedented look at the communications between state, local, and federal law enforcement in the face of the nationwide protests. In an analysis of nearly 300 documents that reference antifa, The Intercept found repeated instances of antifa and left-wing protesting activities cast in cartoonishly grim terms alongside more substantive reports of lethal right-wing violence and threats that have received scant mention from top Trump administration officials.
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Nevilledog
(51,080 posts)Like 270 GB of documents.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Nevilledog
(51,080 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)applegrove
(118,622 posts)not have posted it. I'm bad with names.
Gothmog
(145,130 posts)Anti-fa is not an organized group and only low IQ idiots believe that this group exists and is a threat
denem
(11,045 posts)the Intercept can fuck off.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)LW extremists in the U.S. are famous with law forcement for chaining themselves to trees, RW for attacking people, preferably minorities and helpless victims. LWers might rarely blow up a building, but it'll be empty. RWers blow them up or use them for shooting galleries far, far more often and because there are people in them.
denem
(11,045 posts)Fail. Don't care what it is; trump's tx returns a possible exception.