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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Was Targeted in Armed White Supremacist Plot
https://truthout.org/latest/Democracy Now!
October27, 2020
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Was Targeted in Armed White Supremacist Plot
By Amy Goodman
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza says President Trump is “stoking fires he has no intention of controlling.”
This election season, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza says President Trump is “stoking fires he has no intention of controlling” and inciting far-right extremists. She was recently approached by the FBI after agents found her name on a list in the home of a white supremacist in Idaho who was arrested on weapons charges. “Racial terror has always been used as a form of control, particularly during periods of people fighting for social change,” she says.
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