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Ayanna Pressley: In August, we learned from a leaked 2018 FBI document that the FBI considered BIE, black identity extremists, to be as…

On the recordSeptember 19, 2019
In August, we learned from a leaked 2018 FBI document that the FBI considered BIE, black identity extremists, to be as high a priority as white supremacy extremists.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley points out the FBI's misclassification of threats between black identity extremists and white supremacists.

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