By a vote of 47-47, Senate Republicans blocked the legislation. In 2022, House Democrats passed a bill, the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, which would have created new offices designed to focus on domestic terrorism specifically, in DHS, the FBI, and the Justice Department. “Unfortunately, we have seen law enforcement across the country treating environmental activists and racial justice protesters as terrorists, despite the lack of deadly violence associated with this activism.” Since then, charges against participants in the January 6 attack have caused domestic terror prosecutions to increase sharply. government efforts to address domestic terrorism - described by the White House as “the most urgent terrorism threat the United States faces today.”
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President Joe Biden, in his first full day in office, directed his national security team to conduct a 100-day, comprehensive review of U.S. In 2020, then-President Donald Trump vowed to designate “antifa” as a terrorist organization. The focus on domestic terrorism has been shared by leaders of both parties.
“Unfortunately, we have seen law enforcement across the country treating environmental activists and racial justice protesters as terrorists, despite the lack of deadly violence associated with this activism,” said German. Related Atlanta Police Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters The terror enhancement of the charges have prompted criticism from civil liberties groups. On March 5, following the alleged Molotov attack against police, Georgia authorities charged 23 protesters with domestic terrorism. Since then, protesters have taken up camp in the forest where the facility would be built, in an effort to block its construction. The facility is expected to take up over 85 acres, replete with a mock city for “urban police training.” Cop City, expected to cost $90 million, was announced in 2021 by then-Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. On Monday, Atlanta City Council will vote on the budget for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, the law enforcement training facility at the center of the controversy. In March, activists involved in the movement were accused of using Molotov cocktails - which are not listed in a DHS document defining the term - but there does not appear to be any record of IED allegations before the December CISA report. The CISA report was posted to the Technical Resource for Incident Prevention, or TRIPwire, a resource sharing portal for “expert intelligence analysis” in order to raise “awareness of evolving Improvised Explosive Device (IED) tactics,” according to its website. “The nature of the law enforcement response to the Stop Cop City protests, and the prosecutions of protesters and their supporters highlights how broad domestic terrorism laws are used as a political cudgel rather than a mechanism to improve public safety,” Mike German, a former FBI special agent and fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice, told The Intercept. Brian Kemp said they had “facilitated and encouraged domestic terrorism.” When administrators of a bail fund for protesters were charged with money laundering last week, Republican Georgia Gov. Since then, the trend of terror allegations has continued, ensnaring a growing group of actors in the movement, with more than 40 now facing terror charges. In March, prosecutors began hitting anti-Cop City protesters with domestic terrorism charges for alleged attacks with rocks and Molotov cocktails. That it has filtered into DHS reporting on protest movements is reflective of the new focus on domestic terrorism, particularly after the January 6 attack on the U.S. The term “militants” used by federal agents in December reflects the escalation: a catchall for targets of the U.S.’s so-called global war on terror, the buzzword not typically used to describe domestic actors. The DHS report came a month before one protester encamped at the proposed Cop City site was killed in a hail of police gunfire - a massive escalation in what has become an ongoing crackdown against the movement. (Neither CISA nor Ngo immediately responded to a request for comment.)Īfter publication of this story, DHS blocked public access to the intelligence report. “Five militants part of a violent far-left occupation in south Atlanta were arrested on Tuesday and charged with domestic terrorism and other felony charges,” Ngo’s original reads. Delivered to you.Ī day earlier, the Post Millennial, a conservative news outlet founded by Ngo that has faced criticism for its partisan bent and misleading stories on subjects like Covid-19, ran a story with the same sentence, with small cosmetic changes.
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