White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

[mysteryowl]

Source: The Guardian (US)

A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states.

White supremacist groups have infiltrated US law enforcement agencies in every region of the country over the last two decades, according to a new report about the ties between police and far-right vigilante groups.

In a timely new analysis, Michael German, a former FBI special agent who has written extensively on the ways that US law enforcement have failed to respond to far-right domestic terror threats, concludes that US law enforcement officials have been tied to racist militant activities in more than a dozen states since 2000, and hundreds of police officers have been caught posting racist and bigoted social media content.

The report notes that over the years, police links to militias and white supremacist groups have been uncovered in states including Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report

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It sure feels like it.

[msongs]

1. fortunately they have union protection and support nt

[mysteryowl]

2. That is the truth as well!

The good news is, if there is any, that society is collectively waking up and calling a stop to this!

[HermitageHermit]

7. the reverse is true as well

The FBI and other law enforcement agents have infiltrated the KKK, American Nazi Party and other similarly white supremacy outfits. When the latest Charlie Daniels sung about "undercover agent for the FBI infiltrating the KKK" in Uneasy Rider, he was speaking to a real fear

[JudyM]

16. Where are you going with this parallel?

[Bengus81]

20. And???

[SergeStorms]

23. So...you don't think the FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies...

have a right to infiltrate domestic terrorist organizations? That's your fear?

[geardaddy]

26. +1

This seems odd.

[HermitageHermit]

35. Of course they should continue to infiltrate extremist groups

Like they always have.

Consider the cited report, however.

Suppose an FBI agent or law enforcement personnel infiltrates the Nazi Party. Does his duty, works for 10 years or longer inside the organization providing reports on the Nazi goings-on.. The same man progresses in his career, and decides to move on to another detail in his agency- and is no longer working FT on the undercover assignment in the Nazi Party.

To someone who knew the law enforcement officer as a Nazi official , it merely appears as if a Nazi is infiltrating law enforcement. In actuality, it would be the opposite.

And considering the fact that when they moved the first G-Man off of the uncover position, he brought in another G-Man to maintain the presence there, it really gives a different impression than reality

[PSPS]

36. LOL. Thanks for clearing that up! LOL. I'll bet you're a budding writer!

Here in the reality-based world, though, there is no shortage of videos showing cops high-fiving gun-toting nazis, stories of their professing nazi allegiances in their social media, etc. But good luck with your screenplay!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

29. Yes, the FBI etc are doing their job, in your example.

What's your point?

[littlemissmartypants]

31. Welcome to DU. nt

[geardaddy]

24. Yep, and MPD's Bob KKKroll is the posterchild

for racist Police Union head.

[cayugafalls]

3. Systemic Racism. Police have always been infiltrated by racists.

Slave Patrols were started in the 1700's to round up escaped slaves.

Modern policing partially evolved from there.

[rwsanders]

4. I'd say it's hard to call it an infiltration, when it was built on these types from the beginning.

A far different thing than far-right groups encouraging members to join the military for free training and actively recruiting there.

I think this is just a view into a festering boil that has been on the country's backside for a long time.

[jaxexpat]

15. Yep, you got that right. Just insight into the boil.

I think that some folks don't really want an informed electorate led by temporary representatives chosen from their midst. We don't ever talk about it but probably the most necessary quality of citizens living in a democracy is HUMILITY. For the experiment to work, we must ALL put the good of the whole above our personal interests. And that goes against the grain of capitalism and "rugged individualism" so prominent in the struggle to promote sales. As well as nullifying that scorecard of success, material wealth.
Oh, and cops exist to protect wealth a whole lot more than keep the peace.

[Mr.Bill]

18. To paraphrase what Will Smith said about racism,

white supremacy in the police isn't increasing, it's just being filmed now.

[soldierant]

30. I actually dislike it being called "white supremacy,"

with the implication that whiyes are better. Yes, I know that's what they think, but it simply is not true (and I speak as an old white woman.) Who'll join me to call it "white pseudo-supremacy"?

[KS Toronado]

32. I'll second that thought! White supremacy kinda implies all white people which isn't true

[soldierant]

34. Thanks

[cstanleytech]

5. Not to mention they have infiltrated the Whitehouse.

[Kaiserguy]

13. And taken over the Republican Party

Which was sadly an easy thing to do.

[alwaysinasnit]

6. k&r for visibility

[StTimofEdenRoc]

8. EINSATZGRUPPEN

[randr]

9. No only defunding

Disinfecting would be the top of my list.

[bringthePaine]

10. let's not forget the military - word is Colorado Springs is awash in USAF christo-leptic fascists...

[ancianita]

11. There should be FBI numbers attached to this report. There aren't any. Why is that.

[DallasNE]

12. This Just Provides Support For What I Have Been Saying For Years

Law enforcement hiring practices are highly flawed and need to have major changes specifically to weed out undesirable candidates before putting a gun into their hands. Indeed, it is almost like they go out of their way to locate and hire the very individuals they should be rejecting. That must stop.

[pecosbob]

14. The police are terrorists

[WinstonSmith4740]

17. Not exactly news...

The FBI (before Comey et al. were called "scum" ), tried to warn us back in 2006.

http://pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement

"In the 2006 bulletin, the FBI detailed the threat of white nationalists and skinheads infiltrating police in order to disrupt investigations against fellow members and recruit other supremacists."

[Hulk]

19. I'm not sure who infiltrated who

The same is true the military.... for the discharge military.

[certainot]

21. and they're probably listening to rw radio in their patrol cars

[intrepidity]

22. UnBund The Police! (as in, Ammon Bundy) nt

[geardaddy]

27. or as in the German-American Bund

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund

[intrepidity]

28. Perfect then! UnBund the Police!

[olegramps]

25. It attracts this type of personality. People who are totally warped to begin with.

[littlemissmartypants]

33. Recommended reading, Kathleen Belew, PhD

Belew specializes in the recent history of the United States, examining the long aftermath of warfare. Her first book, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (Harvard, 2018, paperback 2019), explores how white power activists wrought a cohesive social movement through a common story about warfare and its weapons, uniforms, and technologies. By uniting previously disparate Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi, skinhead, and other groups, the movement carried out escalating acts of violence that reached a crescendo in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City.

Belew is at work on a forthcoming co-edited collection, Field Guide to the History of Hate (University of California Press, anticipated Spring 2020), as well as a new book on gun violence and the history of the 1990s. Her award-winning teaching centers on the broad themes of history of the present, conservatism, race, gender, violence, identity, and the meaning of war.

Belew has held postdoctoral fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2019-20), Northwestern University, and Rutgers University. Her research has received the support of the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Jacob K. Javits Foundation, as well as an Albert J. Beveridge and John F. Enders grants for research in Mexico and Nicaragua. She earned her BA in the Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington in 2005, where she was named Dean’s Medalist in the Humanities. Her MPhil (2008) and PhD (2011) in American Studies are from Yale University.

https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/kathleen-belew

❤lmsp

[dalton99a]

37. Kenosha Sheriff David Beth: "We have to get rid of these people."

Link to tweet

[oasis]

42. "Warehouse" black shoplifters until "they have perished". This

coming from law enforcement "leadership" in Kenosha.

[RussBLib]

38. police ran the KKK or vice versa, in the old days

but suddenly it becomes clear why police killings of blacks has been so persistent.

Like, SNAP!

[thucythucy]

39. This has been going on for decades at least.

Rage Against the Machine was not talking in metaphors when they recorded this:

[Upthevibe]

40. Well that was a

TERRIFYING read Having said that, as others have mentioned, now that things are out in the open could this possibly be the beginning of the end for them? PLEASE....God PLEASE!

[Upthevibe]

41. Well that was a

TERRIFYING read Having said that, as others have mentioned, now that things are out in the open could this possibly be the beginning of the end for them? PLEASE....God PLEASE!