Black Identity Extremists
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Black Identity Extremists (BIE) is a designation coined in an FBI counterterrorism report from August 2017 that was leaked. The document describes police safety concerns from allegedly "violent" black civil liberty activism in the United States.
Background
An internal FBI report dated August 3, 2017 appears to have coined a new term when it was made public in October 2017 by Foreign Policy.[1][2][3] According to Foreign Policy, the report is the first reference to "black identity extremists". Former government officials and legal experts claim the term describes a movement that does not exist.[1] After the report was leaked, civil liberties organizations and political commentators expressed concern that the internal use of this designation by the FBI's counter terrorism unit signals a politically-motivated effort to falsely equivocate black activism, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, with white supremacists.[4][5]
The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, the nation's largest black police group, states that the FBI designation is "ill advised."[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The FBI's New U.S. Terrorist Threat: 'Black Identity Extremists'". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "FBI's "black identity extremists" label is ill-advised, the nation's largest black police group says". Retrieved 2017-12-16.
- ↑ Weinberger, Sharon. "BIE Redacted". www.documentcloud.org. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
- ↑ Beydoun, Khaled A.; Hansford, Justin (2017-11-15). "Opinion | The F.B.I.'s Dangerous Crackdown on 'Black Identity Extremists'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
- ↑ Kortyka, Lindsey. "Who Are "Black Identity Extremists"? The FBI Identified Them As A New Domestic Terror Threat". Bustle. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
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