07-15-2020, 07:19 PM
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-police-far-right-antifa/
Recent leaks of law enforcement documents show a number of examples of LE agencies responding quite differently to BLM and antifa protestors compared to right wing militias and groups like Boogaloo.
While the documents show that law enforcement knew that far right groups posed a greater threat, there are numerous instances where liberal protests are over exaggerated to sound bad. In addition, far right perpetrators are made out to be lone wolves while BLM and antifa protestors are consistently treated as guilty by association for any sort of public dissent.
Days prior to Trump pushing for Antifa to be labeled a terrorist organization, DHS was warning law enforcement agencies of targeted attacks by far right groups. Despite this, an FBI memo about violent extremists sent out after Barr joined Trump's calls against antifa made no reference to any specific far right groups but targeted antifa and anarchists multiple times.
Across the country, LE agencies chased leads on antifa and there was a clear effort to link them to organized criminal activity. As more information came in about threats from groups like Boogaloo, the strategy was to draw comparisons between far right groups and antifa, even when their actions were not comparable. Portraying Antifa as a similar terrorist threat served as political red meat.
Recent leaks of law enforcement documents show a number of examples of LE agencies responding quite differently to BLM and antifa protestors compared to right wing militias and groups like Boogaloo.
While the documents show that law enforcement knew that far right groups posed a greater threat, there are numerous instances where liberal protests are over exaggerated to sound bad. In addition, far right perpetrators are made out to be lone wolves while BLM and antifa protestors are consistently treated as guilty by association for any sort of public dissent.
Days prior to Trump pushing for Antifa to be labeled a terrorist organization, DHS was warning law enforcement agencies of targeted attacks by far right groups. Despite this, an FBI memo about violent extremists sent out after Barr joined Trump's calls against antifa made no reference to any specific far right groups but targeted antifa and anarchists multiple times.
Across the country, LE agencies chased leads on antifa and there was a clear effort to link them to organized criminal activity. As more information came in about threats from groups like Boogaloo, the strategy was to draw comparisons between far right groups and antifa, even when their actions were not comparable. Portraying Antifa as a similar terrorist threat served as political red meat.
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