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FBI: '''No intelligence''' linking antifa to weekend violence in Floyd protests - Business Insider :thumbs:
Extremists have been inciting violence in the George Floyd/police brutality protests, but it is far-right provocateurs and authoritarian police who are doing it. This, of course, was the whole point of the protestors, the overwhelming majority of whom were peaceful.
The FBI has collected no intelligence indicating that "antifa" was involved in violence over the weekend related to protests over the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died on May 25 after a white police officer in Minneapolis knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes
The FBI report listed a series of violent acts including instances of bricks being thrown at police officers and a backpack that contained explosives. But based on "CHS [Confidential Human Source] canvassing, open source/social media partner engagement, and liaison," the bureau had no evidence that those acts were directly linked to antifa, The Nation said.
But the FBI's report did warn that people associated with a far-right social-media group had "called for far-right provocateurs to attack federal agents" and "use automatic weapons against protesters."
Extremists have been inciting violence in the George Floyd/police brutality protests, but it is far-right provocateurs and authoritarian police who are doing it. This, of course, was the whole point of the protestors, the overwhelming majority of whom were peaceful.