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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite 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 memoA 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
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MLAA
(17,165 posts)1. I don't even know what to say about these sick, sick fuckers.
How small and scared inside do you have to be in order to be a white supremacist?
roamer65
(36,739 posts)2. White supermacists are mentally ill.
They need to be quarantined. They have a mental virus.
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)3. Some of the rioters in different cities are light skinned....
Some of the rioters in different cities are light skinned
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Passing?
https://imgur.com/gallery/E1Ik0Ra
https://imgur.com/gallery/6a8JxK7
Celerity
(42,666 posts)4. UFC Fighter Jon Jones taking spray paint cans from troublemakers at a protest
thanks for the links!!!