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New: Data shows right-wing vigilantes & paramilitaries have confronted or attacked anti-racist protesters about 500 times since cops killed George Floyd in May. This includes at least:

64 assaults
38 attacks by car
9 shootings
3 deaths

huffpost.com/entry/white-vi…

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The data, collected by @areidross, a doctoral fellow at the @C4ARR, includes 387 incidents of intimidation, such as vigilantes appearing at protests and using racial slurs, making threats, brandishing guns...

huffpost.com/entry/white-vi…
“There just isn’t anything else to compare it to,” @areidross said. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life.”

Ross said the data includes abt 2 dozen instances of cops supporting or collaborating with right-wing vigilantes & paramilitaries. huffpost.com/entry/white-vi…
A report from @BrennanCenter's Mike German also details extensive ties between cops & fascists

“In a time when the effort to defund police is getting some salience, the police are behaving in such a way as to justify that argument” German told @samtlevin theguardian.com/us-news/2020/a…
.@nick_w_estes talked to me about the history of white vigilantes in the U.S.

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The story also includes this handy guide to the far-right paramilitaries that have been confronting protesters this summer, courtesy @PRAEyesRight huffpost.com/entry/white-vi…
“We need to seriously reconsider the permissiveness with which we are allowing armed paramilitaries to roam the streets of our nation’s towns & cities," @VetAnthropology said. “There’s nothing normal about this. We don’t want to be living in a war zone” huffpost.com/entry/white-vi…
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"the man was also an associate of the Aryan Cowboy Brotherhood, a small white supremacist prison & street gang based primarily in Minnesota & Kentucky."

Deeply alarming but also wary of cops creating a narrative that this somehow means the uprising was manufactured/artificial
like look how they're framing this. it's a blatant attempt to erase the accomplishments of a genuine and organic uprising, or to sow doubt about its origins startribune.com/police-umbrell…
Molly debunked a similar police narrative in Richmond just this morning
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I'm home & overwhelmed by all your messages of love & support. Thank you.

I'll explain more about my arrest later but for now just know it was bogus, as were the arrests of all the brave New Yorkers protesting against a police force that routinely terrorizes this city.
Please show the protesters your support.
Again, I'll explain more abt my arrest and everything I saw, but just wanna say quick that it is the height of absurdity to suggest the NYPD showed restraint yesterday.

The mayor's statement gives cops the green light to continue to brutalize protesters
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NEW: There's been a big proliferation of Facebook groups devoted to the "boogaloo," a term for civil war, during the pandemic.

Thousands of armed right-wing militants, mad at lockdown measures, are plotting & preparing for violence against the government huffpost.com/entry/boogaloo…
A new @TTP_updates report has identified 125 Facebook groups devoted to boogaloo.

Over 60% of the groups were created in just the last three months, according to the report. The 125 groups have tens of thousands of members. huffpost.com/entry/boogaloo…
The potential for real-world violence by these Facebook groups came into focus earlier this week, when an boogaloo enthusiast live-streamed himself on Facebook driving around Texarkana, Texas, allegedly looking for a police officer to shoot and kill. buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanu…
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