Yahoo News - Alleged white supremacists were responsible for all race-based domestic terrorism 2018
Alleged white supremacists were responsible for all race-based domestic terrorism incidents in 2018
Here's the data on white supremacist terrorism the Trump administration has been 'unable or unwilling' to give to Congress
Jana Winter and Hunter Walker
Yahoo NewsAugust 8, 2019, 7:52 PM EDT
https://news.yahoo.com/heres-the-data-the-trump-administration-wouldnt-give-congress-on-white-supremacist-terrorism-235254627.html
WASHINGTON Alleged white supremacists were responsible for all race-based domestic terrorism incidents in 2018, according to a government document distributed earlier this year to state, local and federal law enforcement.
The document, which has not been previously reported on, becomes public as the Trump administrations Justice Department has been unable or unwilling to provide data to Congress on white supremacist domestic terrorism.
The data in this document, titled Domestic Terrorism in 2018, appears to be what Congress has been asking for and didnt get.
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For the past decade, the FBI used 11 different categories for domestic terrorism, including a separate category for white supremacist incidents. The Administration is now using a classification system with only four categories, including racially-motivated violent extremism, the letter said. This new category inappropriately combines incidents involving white supremacists and so-called Black identity extremists, a fabricated term based on a faulty assessment of a small number of isolated incidents.