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Police partnered with white supremacist group to pursue 'anti-racist' activists

US news February 9, 2018
According to court documents obtained by The Guardian, the California Highway Patrol partnered with TWP, a known white supremacist group, to identify counter-protesters at a 2016 rally. Documents show police were sympathetic to the white nationalist rally organizers and protected their identities.
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· 9 Feb 2018

California police worked with neo-Nazis to pursue 'anti-racist' activists, documents show

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· 9 Feb 2018

California police worked with a neo-Nazi group to ID anti-fascists for prosecution, tried to protect a white supremacist organizer's name, and targeted activists for "anti-racist" beliefs:

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· 9 Feb 2018

"The officers said, 'We’re pretty much going after them,' and assured him: 'We’re looking at you as a victim.'” I covered this Nazi rally in Sac. This is exactly what they did. The officers set the Nazis up to be attacked. Then treated them as victims.

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· 9 Feb 2018

"The records also showed officers expressing sympathy with white supremacists and trying to protect a neo-Nazi organizer’s identity..."

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· 9 Feb 2018

For emphasis: California cops collaborated with literal Nazis and expressed sympathy with white supremacists, uniting to try to repress anti-racist counter-protesters. This was before Trump was elected. Fascism has been brewing in the US for a long time.

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· 9 Feb 2018

Re: the 2016 rally in which 7 people were stabbed: California police worked with neo-Nazis to pursue 'anti-racist' activists, documents show (Reminder that many flying the TWP banner that day were Golden State Skinheads)

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· 9 Feb 2018

One police officer recommended that a black anti-fascist activist who was stabbed at the rally be charged with 11 offenses. Apparently his "black power salute" indicated his intention to "violate the civil rights" of neo-Nazis.

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· 9 Feb 2018

Victim of Nazi violence: "It is shocking and really angering to see the level of collusion and amount to which the police covered up for the Nazis... The people who were victimized by the Nazis were then victimized by the police and the district attorneys"

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