Police guide that calls BLM a terrorist group draws outrage
Source: Associated Press
Police guide that calls BLM a terrorist group draws outrage
By RYAN J. FOLEY
December 2, 2020
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) A prominent law enforcement training group is promoting a lengthy research document riddled with falsehoods and conspiracies that urges local police to treat Black Lives Matter activists as terrorists plotting a violent revolution.
The document distributed by the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association contains misinformation and inflammatory rhetoric that could incite officers against protesters and people of color, critics said. It alleges Black Lives Matter and antifa, an umbrella term for leftist militants, are revolutionary movements whose aims are to overthrow the U.S. government and claims they are planning extreme violence.
Phillip Atiba Goff, a Yale University professor who is an expert on racial bias in policing, called the document dangerous, noting that the association is an important source of training materials for many small and midsize departments across the country.
Its stunning. Its distressing in many ways. Its untethered to reality, said Goff, CEO of the Center for Policing Equity. I worry that it leads to people dying unnecessarily.
The association in October sent a link to the 176-page paper, Understanding Antifa and Urban Guerrilla Warfare, in an email news update to its thousands of members. The document, labeled restricted to law enforcement only, is one of the few publicly available materials on its website. The Associated Press learned of the document from one of the policing organizations members.
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Phoenix61
(17,002 posts)Brian is in demand across North America for his innovative training programs and presentations on Excellence in Training, The Winning Mind and Warrior Spirit and Verbal Trauma Control. He is the editor and a contributing writer for the book W.I.N.: Critical Issues in Training and Leading Warriors as well as a contributing writer for Warriors: On Living With Courage, Discipline and Honor.
And we wonder where the militarization of police departments comes from.
msongs
(67,395 posts)Aristus
(66,316 posts)Idaho I could imagine.
But nice, polite, genial, grain-growing Iowa?
Shit, man. Law enforcement's shit is toxic...