Attorney General Barr forms panel on 'anti-government extremism'

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

POLITICS JUNE 26, 2020 / 8:12 PM / UPDATED 18 HOURS AGO

Attorney General Barr forms panel on 'anti-government extremism'

Simon Lewis
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General William Barr on Friday ordered the establishment of a task force to counter what he called “anti-government extremists” committing violence as protests against police brutality convulse the United States.

In a memo to law enforcement and prosecutors released by the Department of Justice, Barr said alleged extremists had “engaged in indefensible acts of violence designed to undermine public order,” including attacking police officers, damaging property and threatening innocent people.

Protests have spread nationwide over George Floyd’s death in police custody last month and the deaths of other African Americans at the hands of police.

Although largely peaceful, some demonstrators have turned violent, which President Donald Trump and his allies have blamed on left-wing extremists among the protesters.

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Barr named the militant anti-government movement known as the “boogaloo,” as well as the left-wing Antifa as among those posing “continuing threats of lawlessness”.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-extremism/attorney-general-barr-forms-panel-on-anti-government-extremism-idUSKBN23Y00B

[mitch96]

1. Shouldn't it be "Anti tRump" extremism? nt

[C_U_L8R]

2. Sounds Nixonian

They ought to know going to war against your own people leads to an unpleasant end, every time.

[Grasswire2]

3. might be okay if we didn't know the perfidy of Barr and his real intentions

But we do.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. I hope he has a mirror big enough to show his fat ass

and Fat Donnie standing right next to him.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. We Have Met the Enemy ... and He Is Us?

I'm not sure if this phrase applies or not but I do know blob Barr is flirting with disaster. The life he pigeon holes could eventually be his own.

[bottomofthehill]

6. Great, here is as good as any place to start looking

https://www.google.com/search?q=state+house+gun+protest&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVh4Sg1qLqAhVWhXIEHZrUAVYQ_AUoAnoECAsQBA&biw=1536&bih=750#imgrc=IcAHxiqK3vbTeM


I will make it easy for him

State house gun protests

[Baked Potato]

7. So now, Government good? What a clown.

[COLGATE4]

8. I'll bet he has some neat ideas about

the cute brown uniforms they could wear.

[abqtommy]

9. Seems to me that a panel on "anti-government estremism" would be investigating the reTHUGS.

We all pretty much understand honest people who are fed up with them and tRUMP...

[Voltaire2]

10. So he will be investigating the Republican Party?