In 1983 Gordon Kahl, a member of the far-right group known as "Posse Comitatus" shot two federal marshals to death as they attempted to arrest him.

He became a instant hero to members of the movement

In 1992 US Marshalls attempted to arrest right winger Randy Weaver and a U.S. Marshall was killed in the process.

One of Weaver's kids and his wife were also killed.

He became an instant cause celebre among far right circles

In 1995 Tim McVeigh committed the worst act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history when he blew up the Federal building in Oklahoma and killed 168 people.

He was a white supremacist.

On June 6th 2020 a "boogaloo boy" named Steven Carillo is alleged to have ambushed and killed a Federal security officer and a LA Deputy a

There has always been factions among the far right who have seen both the federal government and law enforcement as their enemy, but at no point should that mean that these far right forces are our friends

These disparate factions of the right are held together by white supremacist ideas that if implemented, would not lead us closer to liberation, but further from it.

It is a mistake for those on the left to believe that reactionary anti-police sentiment is principled or anything other than an attempt to grab power by harnessing popular resentment towards authority