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1/ It's important to note that as Americans are protesting police brutality, Trump is encouraging more violence, both from the "very well armed military" he's threatening to deploy AND from his base with his reference to "Second Amendment rights" during yesterday's remarks
2/ In fact, Trump's own DHS warned states in late May that extremists, including white supremacist, are inciting followers to engage in violence and start a second Civil War by shooting in a crowd. Many of these folks are attending #GeorgeFloydProtests fully armed
3/ All of this is happening against the backdrop of SURGING GUN SALES.

As you guys know, I've been tracking this pretty closely and yesterday, @FBI released new numbers for May

In May of 2020, we experienced a 79% ⬆️ in firearm-related background checks as compared to May 2019
@FBI 4/ That means that so far, we have experienced 55% more firearm-related background checks in 2020 than we did by this point in 2019. (Part of this is attributed to the surge in gun sales in March & April of 2020).
@FBI 5/ As you can imagine, the stocks of firearm manufacturers are *surging*

@Smith_WessonInc jumped 15.1%
#SturmRuger advanced 9.4% Shares of both companies outpaced the broader market. wsj.com/articles/gun-s…
@FBI @Smith_WessonInc 6/ In America we have over ~393,000,000 firearms in civilian hands, more than anywhere else ...and that's partly why we have a bigger gun violence problem than any other place in the world

B/c the standard for gun ownership is so low, you can buy v powerful guns pretty easily
@FBI @Smith_WessonInc 7/ Yesterday, Denver police seized assault rifles, handguns from an anti-government agitator part of the racist Boogaloo movement. They're trying to start a second civil war in order to get the government out of the way and establish white domination
@FBI @Smith_WessonInc 8/ And of course these folks who are stockpiling incredibly dangerous firearms (and brought them to the protest) were simply allowed to go on their merry way
@FBI @Smith_WessonInc 9/9 So everyone please be safe and vigilant. We need all of you to build safer and just communities with fewer guns.
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1/ America has 393 million firearms in civilian hands, firearms which can transform disagreements into fatalities

So far, we had at least 62 instances of gun violence at the #GeorgeFloydProtests and 15 people died

(They were killed by civilian agitators, not law enforcement) Image
2/ We're tracking gun incidents at the #GeorgeFloydProtests and found multiple instances of:

- ppl brandishing firearms & pointing guns at protesters

- ppl bringing stockpiles of firearms to protests (found examples of MAGA folks & others doing this)

- ppl firing at police
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 - several instances of business owners using firearms to stop looters

- several instances of people driving by in cars and pointing their firearms at protesters

You can see all the data here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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1/ Anarchist & militia extremists could try to exploit the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd, the Department of Homeland Security warned in an intelligence note sent to law enforcement officials around the country.
2/ The DHS memo also says that 2days after Floyd’s death, “a white supremacist extremist Telegram 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.”
3/ One Telegram message encouraged potential shooters to “frame the crowd around you” for the violence, the document said. politico.com/news/2020/06/0…
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1/ This line in Trump’s tweet: “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”... is a quote from Miami Police Chief Walter Headley

In Dec 1967, months before riots at GOP Convention in Miami, Headley used that quote to announce “get tough” policy for policing black neighborhoods
2/ Headley promised to use shotguns, dogs, & “stop and frisk” tactics.

“We don’t mind being accused of police brutality,” the New York Times reported him saying at the time. “They haven’t seen anything yet” Headley said.
3/ Headley’s stop & frisk policy was a disaster.

2 months after he announced the policy, 2 patrolmen strip-searched Robert Owens, a teenager suspected of carrying a concealed knife into a pool hall. The cops then dangled Owens by his feet over a bridge above the Miami River.
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