http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017...errorist-threat.html

The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., has spawned a violent domestic threat from “black identity extremists” who have stepped up attacks on police, according to an explosive new report by the FBI’s counterterrorism division.

The warning, first reported by Foreign Policy magazine, says that “it is very likely BIEs proactively target police and openly identify and justify their actions with social-political agendas commensurate with their perceived injustices against African Americans ...”

Brown, an African-American 18-year-old, was shot in August 2014 after struggling with white police officer Darren Wilson. Although Brown's supporters claimed it was a deadly case of police brutality, Wilson was cleared of wrongdoing and resigned in November 2014.

The shooting led to protests in Ferguson that then spread to other parts of the country. It gained added momentum after subsequent racially charged police shootings, spurred on via social media and the group Black Lives Matter.

The FBI report said that the agency previously had analyzed the potential for violence of black identity extremism, a term that was unfamiliar before it appeared in the document. What has changed, according to the report, is that violence has now actually occurred and is 'likely" to continue.
“It is very likely that BIEs’ perceptions of unjust treatment of African-Americans and the perceived unchallenged illegitimate actions of law enforcement will inspire premeditated attacks against law enforcement over the next year,” the report said. “It is very likely additional controversial police shootings of African-Americans and the associated legal proceedings will continue to serve as drivers for violence against law enforcement.”

Attacks in which police officers are targeted have been on the rise in recent years. The most high-profile such incident occurred last year in Dallas, when a gunman named Micah Johnson hid in a parking garage and fired on 11 police officers, killing five of them, during a protest against officer-involved shootings. The FBI report noted that Johnson referred to anger over police shootings and toward whites as what drove him to kill the five police officers.

The FBI report drew accusations of racial profiling.

DeRay Mckesson of Black Lives Matter told The Guardian the terrorism report echoes the days when FBI tracked activist groups including the NAACP and those that opposed wars.

“We knew that we were likely being watched,” said Mckesson, a longtime critic of government monitoriing of protest groups. “This is confirmation that the work of social justice continues to threaten those in power.”

The Guardian also quoted an unnamed source it described only as a former senior official from the Department of Homeland Security saying that the category "black identity extremist" was troubling.

"This is a new umbrella designation that has no basis," the source is quoted as saying. "There are civil rights and privacy issues all over this."

But others say that the FBI is correctly sounding an alarm about a serious trend.

"It's not racial profiling, it's violence profiling," said Scott Walter, president of Capital Research Center, a conservative think tank, told Fox News. "Identity politics can kill, whether it's white identity politics, which killed in Charlottesville, or black identity politics, which kills cops."

"We have to be able to distinguish between free speech and violence," Walter said. "[Many] longtime [black] activist groups were not obsessed with voilence."
Randy Sutton, a former Las Vegas law enforcement official who now is the national spokesman for Blue Lives Matter, told Fox News that the FBI report makes official what he and others in police work have been observing in recent years.

"Nobody is saying anything negative about protests," Sutton said, "Protesting is everyone's right. This is about commiting acts of violence. Many Black Lives Matter protests call for violence against police, with chants like 'What do we want?' and 'Dead cops!' It's terrorism, and it's no different than Islamic terrorism."

Sutton said the rising number of ambush attacks on police has had a chilling effect on how they do their jobs.

"Police are not being as aggressive because of the political climate," he said. "There's been a dramatic decrease in proactive policing."

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The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., has spawned a violent domestic threat from “black identity extremists” who have stepped up attacks on police, according to an explosive new report by the FBI’s counterterrorism division.

And in other news, California residents saw the sun set over the Pacific Ocean last night.

Thanks for that. Such a report is a truly remarkable development and would have been unimaginable under the previous Administration.

Does this mean Farrakhan, Jackson, Obama, and Sharpton are now considered actual or potential terrorists?

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Originally posted by sigfreund:

And in other news, California residents saw the sun set over the Pacific Ocean last night.

Is that what that was?

Thanks for clearing that up.

so it is injust to pay people millions of dollars when their son commits crimes and is shot. Both Browns and Tamir Rice made Millions and neither Mother was even raising the kids.

nice to see they're on top of this...

top. men.

well, perhaps a few women as well, but you know, creme of the crop...

as to Sharpton, Jackson and other agitators - I would think the answer to your question would be a resounding YES

And the left will use this as proof that the FBI is a racist group.

That report was obviously written by angry white men.

Time to tear down another statue...

J. Edgar Hoover/MLK comparisons to follow in 3,2,1....

Who cares Leemur. The left calls everything they don't like racist. The term racist has lost its old meaning....now it just means you are beating a leftist asshole in a debate.

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 the Department of Homeland Security saying that the category "black identity extremist" was troubling.

"This is a new umbrella designation that has no basis," the source is quoted as saying. "There are civil rights and privacy issues all over this."

Never mind ACTUAL VICTIMS of these thugs. These 'top men' are worried about the PC concerns.

Idiots.

The "identity" part is confusing. Why not "militant" or something?

ok, I have a question

may or may not be rhetorical

by what possible stretch of the imagination does the black community think that trying to have a 'conversation' with the white community will solve the problem of violence which is 80% black on black?

just curious...

^^^^^^^

Leftists are not overly-burdened by logic and reason.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
ok, I have a question

may or may not be rhetorical

by what possible stretch of the imagination does the black community think that trying to have a 'conversation' with the white community will solve the problem of violence which is 80% black on black?

just curious...

According to Washington Post.

766 People shot and killed by police.

173 Black

360 White

IF black man is shot by a police officer - according to the right wing, conservative, pro-gun, and anti-minority Washington post then over two white people were shot for every one black guy.

Interesting of the 173 black men shot 99 had guns. 26 had knives. 16 used a vehicle. 11 had toy/other weapons.

Know how many were classified as Unarmed? 10! So 5.78% of all Black people killed by police were unarmed? AND 22.58% of all police homicides are black people?

Seems we have a real epidemic going on here....

I don't feel like looking it up. How many black men get killed in a week, in a single city in our country, like Chicago in black on black crime?

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Originally posted by egregore:
The "identity" part is confusing. Why not "militant" or something?

Because most militant implies a group aka Black Panthers, Aryan Nation, KKK, MS13, etc. If you look at the Dallas and Baton Rouge shooters, along with some of the others, you will see the Black Nationalist movement radicalized these guys, a lot like the way ISIS radicalized the lone wolf attackers. No real direction other than "go forth and kill cops etc." Hmmm so it took the FBI a year to come up with a report to tell us what everyone knew in July of 2016 (after the attacks in Dallas and Baton Rouge).....no wonder the Trump Russia probe is taking so long. Of course this FBI report would have never been done or seen the light of day under Obummer.