Sam Pollard's new documentary about the FBI surveillance of MLK couldn't arrive at a better time. Even during a permanent white nationalist insurrection, the Feds are not friends to Black folks. Never ever. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-55620286
The surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr

New documentary highlights extent of the FBI surveillance of the US civil rights leader.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-55620286
Instead of tracking the post Obama/Tea Party era rise of white militias and extremism, the FBI devoted resources to tracking "Black identity extremists" i.e. kids who wanted to stop being shot with impunity by police https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fbi-targets-new-generation-black-activists
When Obama administration tried to ring the alarm and increase FBI surveillance of the violent, white power movement, GOP reversed racism'd him. This 2018, The Daily, podcast breaks down how the desk was defunded https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/podcasts/the-daily/far-right-extremism-united-states.html
The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, and How U.S. Law Enforcement Ignored It (Published 2018)

In an atmosphere of seeming indifference on the part of U.S. law enforcement, a dangerous movement has grown and metastasized.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/podcasts/the-daily/far-right-extremism-united-states.html
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