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FBIs warning of white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement nearly forgottenby Samuel V. Jones * May 12, 2015 * The Grio
Because of intensifying civil strife over the recent killings of unarmed black men and boys, many Americans are wondering, Whats wrong with our police? Remarkably, one of the most compelling but unexplored explanations may rest with a FBI warning of October 2006, which reported that White supremacist infiltration of law enforcement represented a significant national threat.
Several key events preceded the report. A federal court found that members of a Los Angeles sheriffs department formed a Neo Nazi gang and habitually terrorized the black community. Later, the Chicago police department fired Jon Burge, a detective with reputed ties to the Ku Klux Klan, after discovering he tortured over 100 black male suspects. Thereafter, the Mayor of Cleveland discovered that many of the city police locker rooms were infested with White Power graffiti. Years later, a Texas sheriff department discovered that two of its deputies were recruiters for the Klan.
In near prophetic fashion, after the FBIs warning, white supremacy extremism in the U.S. increased, exponentially. From 2008 to 2014, the number of white supremacist groups, reportedly, grew from 149 to nearly a thousand, with no apparent abatement in their infiltration of law enforcement.
This year, alone, at least seven San Francisco law enforcement officers were suspended after an investigation revealed they exchanged numerous White Power communications laden with remarks about lynching African-Americans and burning crosses. Three reputed Klan members that served as correction officers were arrested for conspiring to murder a black inmate. At least four Fort Lauderdale police officers were fired after an investigation found that the officers fantasized about killing black suspects.
MORE: http://thegrio.com/2015/05/12/fbi-white-supremacists-law-enforcement/
LINK TO FBI SOURCE DOCUMENT "White Supremacists Infiltrating Law Enforcement"
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/402521/doc-26-white-supremacist-infiltration.pdf
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Elephant in Living Room: White Supremacists w/ Badges & Guns murdering black men [View all]
99th_Monkey
May 2015
OP
How then do you explain the massively disproportionate killing of black males?
99th_Monkey
May 2015
#2
It's probably geographic. I doubt the white supremacy is coast-to-coast phenomenon.
Buzz Clik
May 2015
#3
When someone calls me "delusional", I expect documentation to prove the point.
Buzz Clik
May 2015
#36
I read research in '64 which showed similar results. CA Man displaces FL Man?
Eleanors38
May 2015
#26
"Near a thousand" doesn't explain the racism in law enforcement and the criminal justice system
gollygee
May 2015
#20
This is more of a problem of rich versus poor. Ironically those cops would have no employment
whereisjustice
May 2015
#8
I don't explain them away... black unemployment is double that of whites, black wealth in 2013
whereisjustice
May 2015
#11
Walter Mosely says race is important, but class is overriding in these shootings...
Eleanors38
May 2015
#31
Yes, there are a number of underlying causations for "out-of-control" Cops Murdering citizens
99th_Monkey
May 2015
#16
Come ON people! Everyone knows if you reported a burning cross in your yard,.....
Spitfire of ATJ
May 2015
#18
So the FBI is investigating and routinely bringing cases to the Justice Department? n/t
jtuck004
May 2015
#38
Here's what Southern Poverty Law Center has to say about supremacist groups and the military...
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#45