Police Wary of Becoming Targets of Radicals

This article was written after the Las Vegas ambush and before the ambush killings of cops in Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Since corpmedia is wary to offend the RW in this country, the issue doesn't get the widespread discussion on broadcast media that it deserves. The actual HUNTING of LEO's.

http://www.standard.net/Police/2014/06/17/Police-wary-of-becoming-targets-of-radicals

The bloodshed in a restaurant and a store is the latest in a series of violent sprees that have recently erupted in schools, colleges, shopping malls, movie theaters and beachfront towns. But the attack on two uniformed police officers, and the particular anti-government and anti-police sentiments expressed by the shooters, evoke warnings that have come from authorities in recent years.

The FBI has referred to individuals who believe that governments in the United States operate illegally as “a growing domestic threat to law enforcement.” In September 2012, Michael Clancy, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, warned that extremists could carry out “smaller, localized acts of violence” and some could target law enforcement and government officials.

There is a movement that believes that the federal government has dangerously overstepped its authority, and within that movement are groups that believe they need to be ready to fight back against any perceived overreach, said J.M. Berger, a terrorism analyst.

In 2012, the Southern Poverty Law Center issued a report on what it called a “stunning” rise in the number of groups it had identified as part of the overall movement. The report said it tracked 1,274 such groups in 2011, up from 824 the year before.
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