CHRIS WRAY/CRIME/FBI/POLICE: “Members of Congress confronted Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, on Wednesday [11-29-17] over an F.B.I. intelligence report that said that black extremists were targeting law enforcement because of police abuses in minority communities.
Mr. Wray met with the Congressional Black Caucus for about 90 minutes on Capitol Hill to discuss its members’ concerns about the report, which grouped together blacks who have espoused violent ideologies, some of whom went on to attack the police, under the term the ‘Black Identity Extremist’ movement…
In the report, the F.B.I.’s Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit said that violence directed at law enforcement increased after a grand jury did not indict a white police officer who fatally shot in 2014 Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, in Ferguson, Mo. Citing six attacks, the report said that those responsible committed assault over ‘perceived racism and injustice’ and that some in the movement wanted to establish a sovereign, autonomous black homeland in the United States.
Elected leaders, legal experts and civil rights activists said that labeling a so-called movement as black identity extremists was ambiguous and meant to chill free speech. They said the bureau’s analysis, earlier reported by Foreign Policy, harked back to the F.B.I. spying illegally on blacks during the civil rights movement and other groups suspected of being subversive.”
-Adam Goldman and Nicholas Fandos, “Lawmakers Confront F.B.I. Director Over Report on Black Extremists,” The New York Times online, Nov. 29, 2017