Justice Department investigating BLM protest leaders, funding in Portland and other cities

[jalan48]

Source: USA Today

The Justice Department has launched a criminal inquiry into the leadership and financing of protests against police abuse that have roiled American cities as the Black Lives Matter movement has become a political flash-point in the contentious presidential campaign.

Federal authorities asserted Tuesday that they are not targeting free speech rights, but rather "coordinated, criminal activity ... and violence related to riots, destruction of federal property and violence against law enforcement officers."

The acknowledgement by the Justice Department followed remarks by Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf who late Monday first disclosed the Justice inquiry as "targeting" leaders of organizations and those who may be funding their movement "across the country."



Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/01/justice-department-investigating-blm-protest-leaders-funding/3454937001/

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Trump wants this election to be about law and order heading into November.

[bluestarone]

1. DO NOT answer one fucking question without

A LAWYER present!!!!

[edhopper]

2. FASCISM!!

[jalan48]

3. Yes it is. Our slow motion coup is accelerating.

[Newest Reality]

4. Bingo!

[TomCADem]

5. Newsweek: Here's What The FBI Had On Martin Luther King Jr.

It seems like Barr is trying outdo J. Edgar Hoover in terms of investigating civil rights leaders.

https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-martin-luther-king-jr-surveillence-wiretap-report-j-edgar-hoover-780630

The FBI was obsessed with Martin Luther King Jr. from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968.

King was only 39 when he was killed on April 4, 1968, having spent 12 years—almost a third of his life—under the FBI's watch.

In all that time, the bureau—and Director J. Edgar Hoover specifically—never uncovered Communist Party ties or any nefarious behavior that warranted the years of wiretaps and eavesdropping. Instead, they discovered a man devoted to serving others, unafraid of self-examination and unconcerned with fame or notoriety, said David Garrow, a historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, in a 2008 CNN interview.

The FBI recordings have "given us the most powerful and persuasive source of all for seeing how utterly selfless Martin Luther King was," said Garrow, who has written several books about King.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[csziggy]

7. The most law-breaking administration in US history wants it to be about law & order

Hmmmm.

[stillcool]

8. every effing day they have to..

rub our noses in another pile of shit. I really can't hate them anymore than I do, but I do. To self I say...think thoughts, but don't act on them. At least not the way I'm thinking.

[mahigan]

9. I would not be surprised

to find right wing agents provocateur instigating at least some of the violence. From what I have seen of the demonstrators from up here north of the border, the BLM protesters are racially very mixed, If so, it would not be difficult for agents to drop in, instigate destruction like starting fires and disappear. I have seen video of people under cover of darkness walking down a street smashing windows as they go. Given cover of darkness and covid face masks, they could be anyone. We will likely never know but I would not be surprised.