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As white supremacists prepared to descend on Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, the FBI warned about a new movement that was violent, growing, and racially motivated. Only it wasn?t white supremacists; it was ?black identity extremists.?

Amid a rancorous debate over whether the Trump administration has downplayed the threat posed by white supremacist groups, the FBI?s counterterrorism division has declared that black identity extremists pose a growing threat of premeditated violence against law enforcement.

?The FBI assesses it is very likely Black Identity Extremist (BIE) perceptions of police brutality against African Americans spurred an increase in premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement and will very likely serve as justification for such violence,? reads the report, marked for official use only and obtained by Foreign Policy.

The August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was the catalyst for widespread anger and violence, the FBI report says, concluding that continued ?alleged? police abuses have fueled more violence.

?The FBI assesses it is very likely incidents of alleged police abuse against African Americans since then have continued to feed the resurgence in ideologically motivated, violent criminal activity within the BIE movement,? the report states.

Some 748 people have been shot and killed by police so far in 2017, including at least 168 African-Americans.

The report, dated Aug. 3 ? just nine days before the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville turned deadly ? appears to be the first known reference to ?black identity extremists? as a movement. But former government officials and legal experts said no such movement exists, and some expressed concern that the term is part of a politically motivated effort to find an equivalent threat to white supremacists.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/06/the-fbi-has-identified-a-new-domestic-terrorist-threat-and-its-black-identity-extremists/

Is it COINTELPRO?

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Dont they have larger concerns

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[Onika]

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