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Celerity

(42,666 posts)
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 11:29 AM Jun 2020

White supremacist channel on Telegram encouraged followers to incite violence, frame the protestors

A white supremacist channel on Telegram encouraged followers to incite violence during police brutality protests by 'shooting in a crowd,' according to internal DHS memo

A white supremacist channel on Telegram encouraged its followers to spark violence to start a race war in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, Politico reported, citing an internal Department of Homeland Security memo.

Citing the FBI, the note said that two days after Floyd's death, the channel "incited followers to engage in violence and start the 'boogaloo' — a term used by some violent extremists to refer to the start of a second Civil War — by shooting in a crowd."

One of the messages in the channel called for potential shooters to "frame the crowd around you" for the violence, the note said, according to Politico.

Other media outlets have also reported on white supremacist groups weaponizing protests against police brutality to incite violence.
Meanwhile, several Republican officials, including President Donald Trump, have blamed "antifa" for the violence and some have suggested protesters should be hunted down like terrorists.


https://www.businessinsider.com/white-supremacist-telegram-channel-encourages-violence-george-floyd-protests-2020-6?r=US&IR=T




'Domestic terrorist actors’ could exploit Floyd protests, DHS memo warns

The memo cites “previous incidents of domestic terrorists exploiting First Amendment-protected events” as one reason for DHS’ concern of additional targeted violence.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/01/dhs-domestic-terrorists-protest-294342



related different story


White supremacists pose as 'Antifa' online, call for violence

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/02/tech/antifa-fake-twitter-account/index.html

A Twitter account that tweeted a call to violence and claimed to be representing the position of "Antifa" was in fact created by a known white supremacist group, Twitter said Monday. The company removed the account.

Before it emerged the account was run by white supremacists, Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump's son, pointed his 2.8 million Instagram followers to the account as an example how dangerous Antifa is.

"This account violated our platform manipulation and spam policy, specifically the creation of fake accounts," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. "We took action after the account sent a Tweet inciting violence and broke the Twitter Rules."
Although the account only had a few hundred followers, it is an example of white supremacists seeking to inflame tensions in the United States by posing as left-wing activists online.

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...so the account had only a few hundred followers, but Dump Jr. had it sussed out and massively amplified it's false-flag message to millions

nawwww, there isn't shenanigans going on, not at all



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White supremacist channel on Telegram encouraged followers to incite violence, frame the protestors (Original Post) Celerity Jun 2020 OP
I don't even know what to say about these sick, sick fuckers. MLAA Jun 2020 #1
White supermacists are mentally ill. roamer65 Jun 2020 #2
Some of the rioters in different cities are light skinned.... keithbvadu2 Jun 2020 #3
UFC Fighter Jon Jones taking spray paint cans from troublemakers at a protest Celerity Jun 2020 #4

MLAA

(17,165 posts)
1. I don't even know what to say about these sick, sick fuckers.
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 12:05 PM
Jun 2020

How small and scared inside do you have to be in order to be a white supremacist?

Celerity

(42,666 posts)
4. UFC Fighter Jon Jones taking spray paint cans from troublemakers at a protest
Tue Jun 2, 2020, 12:44 PM
Jun 2020



thanks for the links!!!

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