FBI’s warning of white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement nearly forgotten

[Starry Messenger]

I remember reading this report when it came out--it is odd it didn't get more attention.

http://thegrio.com/2015/05/12/fbi-white-supremacists-law-enforcement/

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Several key events preceded the report. A federal court found that members of a Los Angeles sheriffs department formed a Neo Nazi gang and habitually terrorized the black community. Later, the Chicago police department fired, Jon Burge, a detective with reputed ties to the Ku Klux Klan, after discovering he tortured over 100 Black male suspects. Thereafter, the Mayor of Cleveland discovered that many of the city police locker rooms were infested with “White Power” graffiti. Years later, a Texas sheriff department discovered that two of its deputies were recruiters for the Klan.

In near prophetic fashion, after the FBI’s warning, white supremacy extremism in the U.S. increased, exponentially. From 2008 to 2014, the number of white supremacist groups, reportedly, grew from 149 to nearly a thousand, with no apparent abatement in their infiltration of law enforcement.

This year, alone, at least seven San Francisco law enforcement officers were suspended after an investigation revealed they exchanged numerous “White Power” communications laden with remarks about “lynching African-Americans and burning crosses.” Three reputed Klan members that served as correction officers were arrested for conspiring to murder a Black inmate. At least four Fort Lauderdale police officers were fired after an investigation found that the officers fantasized about killing black suspects.

The United States doesn’t publicly track white supremacists so the full range of their objectives remains murky. Although black and Jewish-Americans are believed to be the foremost targets of white supremacists, recent attacks in Nevada, Wisconsin, Arizona, Kansas, and North Carolina, demonstrate that other non-whites, and religious and social minorities, are also vulnerable. Perhaps more alarmingly, in the last several years, alone, white supremacists have reportedly murdered law enforcement officers in Arkansas, Nevada, and Wisconsin.

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[tblue37]

1. KnR. nt

[99th_Monkey]

2. K&R I'm eagerly waiting to see this story on CNN

Not so much actually. IMHO CNN is almost as complicit in the White power structure as FOX.

[Starry Messenger]

4. I just tweeted the link to Chris Hayes.

He's on Philly train stories right now, but he might cover it.

[99th_Monkey]

8. Nice one. nt

[Enthusiast]

9. Precisely.

The DOJ should be all over this.

[Heather MC]

3. this is not a shocking discovery the klan was oftend

Made up of high ranking members of a town. Lots of law enforcement. That's Why they wore the sheets

[Starry Messenger]

6. True, but unless there is data, people can deny the problem exists.

Hell, even with data, this report kind of disappeared. I'm hoping to help make it a popular report.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. Plus 1000

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Of course it increased.

We are now on three generations of home grown white supremacists, who all came under the hate radar of the Republican party during the Bush years.

[freshwest]

7. Image is photoshopped, but think about it:

Entitled: A Tale Of Two Hoodies.

[F4lconF16]

13. Post as an OP? nt

[freshwest]

14. Supporting the OP, from the OP's link. n/t

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[gregcrawford]

24. Actually, it's not a photo...

... It's a really good illustration.

But your point is well taken; the pathological malice and mendacity, along with a totalitarian Right-wing belief system, that define far too much of law enforcement is pushing America into the abyss of fascism, and the pervasive corporatist mentality is just fine with that. The two go hand in hand.

[Dont call me Shirley]

25. That should be its own OP, freshwest. OMG, so sad!

[freshwest]

34. It can't be its own OP. It comes from this OP. No need to post a competing OP.

It is the mindset of some of those PDs around Ferguson. Lot of KKK groups in that part of MO. Still fighting the Civil War...

More accurately, still fighting the Revolutionary War as it was the words of the FFs that the CSA found offensive, as I've posted before. The leaders of the Confederacy in their writings made clear that the war really was about slavery and racism, no matter how some states have tried to sanitize it.

All one has to do is read their words about the FFs being naive and mentally unbalanced to never utter the words that all men are created equal. They considered that an aberration.

Yet it reflects the mindset of most Americans from the most obvious to the most subtle of ways, and the concept not being accepted at the time of the FFs in the world and not accepted inmany parts of the world now, made the concept the most inspiring thing millions have ever heard and gave them the courage and conviction to change all of that. The GOP and their ilk spit on that.

The CSA also did not believe women are fit to vote, etc. How many times do we have to hear this and other insults to the rights of women from the GOP and be amazed. They are simply following their philosophy.

[Dont call me Shirley]

35. The mentally imbalanced are those who believe they are special and above others. They are

those who believe they have rights to abuse others and nature. They are the supremacists who know not the truth that we are all one species, the truth that we are all equally deserving of the resources of this earth, the truth that all beings (trees, insects, fishes, atoms of water and oxygen, wolves) are sacred.

[Enthusiast]

10. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

[daleanime]

11. K&R.....

[blm]

12. That and report from Homeland Security of RW extremists targeting law enforcement

have gotten VERY little discussion in media and in congress because so many Republicans condemned the reports. They didn't want their base offended.

[jtuck004]

15. Not forgotten. Just not seen as a problem. n/t

[hopemountain]

16. i will never forget hearing

a ferguson le officer beating a young man and referring to the crowd as "animals". blatant hatred and demeaning to everyone. if just one was caught on camera disparaging other human beings in this manner - how many more?

[Thespian2]

17. Not Shocked...

law enforcement is the method used by corporations to protect their assets...

[Starry Messenger]

21. +1

[peacebird]

18. K&R

[mountain grammy]

19. that really would explain a lot.

[mountain grammy]

20. This is so disturbing and believable

but I think the racists were already in charge long before 2006, so any FBI warning would be ignored. The police have become the lynch mobs of the past.

[cprise]

22. K&R

[libodem]

23. Those skinhead hair cuts

And the fucking jackboots are enought to convince me they are NeoFascist Thugs.

[Dont call me Shirley]

26. So many LEOs have skinhead buzzcuts. I find them ugly, because of their ugly meaning.

[libodem]

28. It smacks of authoritarianism

They really resemble the white supremacy dress code profile when they are not going for the full on military combat ready regalia.

I'm truly frightened by the direction this is headed.

[Dont call me Shirley]

29. The bushes invoked their allies and their hateful ways to rise up.

No more bushes.

[libodem]

31. WORD!

[Dont call me Shirley]

27. Which word/part of this...do the supremacist bigots not understand...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Men interpreted to mean humanity as a whole.

[libodem]

30. It is disturbing on so many levels

Your quote makes my heart sink and tears come to my eyes.


Heartbreaking but it is the real point. Heaves a heavy sigh.

[Dont call me Shirley]

32. The quote belongs to all of us to remind us of our compassion, inclusion and equality.