The people behind the violence in the American protests of George Floyd.

The Department of Homeland Security tried to ensnare hundreds of protesters who attended social justice protests in Portland in an effort before the 2020 election to bolster President Donald Trump’s claims about a “terrorist organization” that was supported by Democrats, Gizmodo reports.

An internal report shared by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) contends that Trump’s acting secretary of homeland security, Chad Wolf, led an effort to collect secret dossiers on people in Portland attending protests in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of a Minneapolis Police officer.

"The DHS report offers a full accounting of the intelligence activities happening behind the scenes of officers’ protest containment; 'twisted efforts,' Wyden said, of Trump administration officials promoting 'baseless conspiracy theories' to manufacture of a domestic terrorist threat for the president’s 'political gain.' The report describes the dossiers generated by DHS as having detailed the past whereabouts and the 'friends and followers of the subjects, as well as their interests' — up to and including 'First Amendment speech activity.' Intelligence analysts had internally raised concerns about the decision to accuse anyone caught in the streets by default of being an 'anarchist extremist' specifically because 'sufficient facts' were never found 'to support such a characterization,'" Deadline's report stated.

The report states that dossiers were also collected on people who were never arrested but were merely accused of issuing threats and “on persons arrested having nothing to do with homeland security or threats to officers.”

The DHS report also describes orders handed down to “senior leadership” instructing them to broadly apply the label “violent antifa anarchists inspired” to protesters unless there was information showing “something different.”

"Once the dossiers were received by the agency’s emerging threat center, it became clear that DHS had no real way to tie the protesters to any terrorist activities, neither at home nor abroad," Deadline reports.

Read the full report over at Gizmodo.

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A man who marched at the notorious 2017 "Unite the Right" Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia got elected last year as a councilor in the city of Enid, Oklahoma, and NBC News reports that it has driven a deep rift within the community.

According to NBC News, Enid City Councilor Judd Blevins' ties to white nationalists were exposed by two local residents in early 2023, shortly before voters went to the polls.

Blevins was elected weeks later, and NBC News notes that word of his participation in the violent Charlottesville march hadn't spread throughout most of the community by the time voters went to the ballot box.

Since his election, however, it has become more commonly known and has led to voters in the city mounting a recall campaign against him.

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"Blevins’ election galvanized an opposition," NBC reported. "In March 2023, around 100 people ... met at a community center. By the end of the evening, they had formed the Enid Social Justice Committee and decided on its first order of business: recalling Judd Blevins."

The recall campaign has seemingly been helped by the fact that Blevins made no effort to distance himself from Nazi groups, and he pointedly said he had "nothing to apologize for" when asked about the campaign against him last year.

In fact, his opponents even said that they would withdraw his recall campaign if he would publicly renounce his past statements in support of white nationalism — but he still completely refused.

That said, the report notes that Blevins has plenty of supporters within the community, including one man at a recent city council meeting who praised him for attending a "demonstration to protect American history" at Charlottesville in 2017.

The election to recall Blevins will be held on April 2nd.

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hanimmal said:

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-s-dhs-tried-to-label-george-floyd-protesters-as-terrorists/
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Fogdog said:

It was Trump and his administration that not only tried to but pressured DHS to label BLM protesters terrorists. What DHS officials who were on the scene at the time reported is they could not find the evidence that Trump and his wannabe SS asked for. They reported that the DHS investigators were treated with disbelief and told to keep looking.

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hanimmal said:

It must have really pissed him off that all that work his bestie Roger Stone did into planting all those little hate filled terrorists in the protests did not pay off.

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