That’s who the FBI seems to want to consider as a domestic terrorist, and thus, investigate and repress.
We’ve seen this before. Happens every time there is a fascist in the White House. I’m sure there are plenty of wonderful, thoughtful, politically neutral FBI agents, the do a great service to the country, yada yada yada. (Everybody feeling good about the cops now? How nice.) But the fact is that whenever you get a fascist in charge, at the state or national level, the cops, pretty much all the cops, shift at least a little, and some shift a lot. They get repression boners. They go to town.
From a piece by Kate Irby in today’s Star Tribune,
The FBI counterterrorism division’s identification of a movement it calls “black identity extremists” is the latest addition to the list of protesters and dissidents the agency puts under the “domestic terrorism” umbrella.
But many national security experts say the designation doesn’t describe a movement at all, let alone a terrorism threat. It’s simply a label that allows the FBI to conduct additional surveillance on “basically anyone who’s black and politically active,” said Michael German, who left the FBI in 2004 and did undercover domestic terrorism work.
While the practice of labeling certain protest groups as domestic terrorists is not unique to President Donald Trump’s administration, Hina Shamsi, national security project director at the American Civil Liberties Union, said there’s concern that “abusive and unjustified investigations” by the FBI are rising.
“We are worried that protesters are increasingly being labeled as terrorism threats,” Shamsi said.
As observed, predicted, and expected. See this.
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It goes along with the (sadly) successful campaign to paint BLM people as being as bad, or worse, than the typical scum you see in the KKK/Neo Nazi/White Supremacist/Trump supporter camp.