White supremacists 'seek affiliation' with law enforcement to further their goals, internal FBI...

[DonViejo]

Source: ABC News


White supremacists 'seek affiliation' with law enforcement to further their goals, internal FBI report warns

Racially motivated extremists want to "develop new tactics," the document says.

ByJosh Margolin
March 8, 2021, 5:05 AM
• 8 min read

In some cases, they wanted to join the military or police so they would be able to commit acts of violence toward members of minority groups. In others, they planned to join the military or police to learn how to wage war against members of those minority groups.

Based on investigations between 2016 and 2020, agents and analysts with the FBI's division in San Antonio concluded that white supremacists and other right-wing extremists would "very likely seek affiliation with military and law enforcement entities in furtherance of" their ideologies, according to a confidential intelligence assessment issued late last month.

The document, obtained by ABC News, was distributed to law enforcement agencies both in Texas and elsewhere in the country. It focuses on extremists inspired by the white-supremacist publication "Siege," which served as motivation for the neo-Nazi group known as "Atomwaffen Division," among others. The report is titled "Siege-Inspired Actors Very Likely Seek Military and Law Enforcement Affiliation, Increasing Risk of Tradecraft Proliferation and Color of Law Offenses in the FBI San Antonio Area of Responsibility."

Conclusions in the assessment were based on information from records and informants, some of whom had "excellent access," the FBI authors wrote in the Feb. 25 document.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/white-supremacists-seek-affiliation-law-enforcement-goals-internal/story

[brewens]

1. Seek? I think law enforcement is already heavily infested with white supremacists. They've been

recruiting them from the military for some time now and it shows. They are supposed to be militarized enforcers for the ruling class now. Anything that looks, sounds or stinks like a white supremacist needs to be rooted out and expelled from law enforcement and the military.

[2naSalit]

3. +1

[BlueJac]

4. Yes, tell it like it is!

[PSPS]

11. It seems that the cop unions are all run by white supremacists too.

[dalton99a]

2. The affinity is natural and mutual.

[llashram]

6. this

and ALWAYS has been.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Chilling

It means a generational struggle between the enforcement of law and civil rights. Hope Biden enacts his policing standards/training ideas.

[OneBlueDotS-Carolina]

7. Link problem

Better link
https://abcnews.go.com/US/white-supremacists-seek-affiliation-law-enforcement-goals-internal/story?id=76309051


https://abcnews.go.com/US/white-supremacists-seek-affiliation-law-enforcement-goals-internal/story?id=76309051Oops! Page Unavailable.

This page either does not exist or is currently unavailable.

From here you can either hit the "back" button on your browser to return to the previous page, or visit the ABCNews.com Home Page. You can also search for something on our site below.

[h2ebits]

9. This has been happening with more frequency lately. . . .See below

If you go to the Home Page you can use their search for the article and it will pull up.

Truly an annoying feature from news sources that just recently started happening, I have found.

Thanks for giving us the better link!

[scarletwoman]

8. I'm pretty sure that this has been going on for years.

Tim McVeigh was not a one-off.

[Baked Potato]

10. I think police are feeling increasingly rejected by their own communities,

causing them to seek help from bad actors. White supremacists apparently are more than happy to fill the vacuum created by this public abandonment and lack of assistance.

The “Our enemy and your enemy unites us” thinking is for the most part self-preservation on the parts of the police.

There are bad actors coming from many sources now hoping to become accepted by police as comrades. It’s up to the law enforcement chiefs to draw the line and be more discriminate with whom they “affiliate” with.

Eventually, as the Capitol Police quickly learned, these so-called comrades will go bad and become well armed adversaries.