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FBI has opened 300 ‘domestic terror’ investigations as a result of riots

DHS revealed that 140 federal LEOs have sustained 277 injuries

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August 4, 2020
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The FBI has opened more than 300 domestic terrorism investigations since George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis kicked off nationwide unrest and riots, a federal attorney revealed Tuesday in a hearing on Capitol Hill on Antifa and violent protests.

Erin Nealy Cox, a U.S. attorney tapped by Attorney General William Barr to lead a task force on violent anti-government extremists, said the feds have opened hundreds of federal criminal investigations surrounding the violence and rioting since May 28, Fox News reported.

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“They have since May 28 [opened] over 300 domestic terrorist investigations,” Cox told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on preventing violent protests. “That does not include any potential civil rights investigations or violent crime associated with the riots.”

Moreover, an alarming report was provided by Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli. He told lawmakers that an estimated 140 federal law enforcement officers guarding a Portland federal courthouse sustained 277 injuries due to the violent and sustained nightly attacks at the building.

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In a practical demonstration during the Senate hearing, he picked up a frozen water bottle and banged it on the desk, saying they have been thrown at officers as well as pipes and Molotov cocktails.

  • PORTLAND RIOTER CHARGED AFTER INJURING U.S. MARSHAL WITH EXPLOSIVE DEVICE

The hearing Tuesday titled “The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble: Protecting Speech by Stopping Anarchist Violence” revealed deep divisions in how Republicans and Democrats view the sustained protests that have gripped the nation since Floyd’s death while in police custody.

The subcommittee chairman, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, focused on rioters and anti-government activists that have “hijacked” peaceful protests and unleashed harm and violence in certain cities, like Portland. He kicked off the hearing by playing a video contrasting the protests from Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and the March for Life with the recent riots, the chaos it has caused, and the Democratic response to it.

Americans have a right to peaceably protest. They do not have a right to engage in violence & anarchy. pic.twitter.com/0V4LIyvgDT

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) August 4, 2020

“Their actions are profoundly racist,” Cruz said. “The rioters …. destroy minority communities, minority businesses and minority lives across this country. This shouldn’t be complicated: peaceful protests must be protected. Riots must be stopped.”

  • PORTLAND RECORDS DEADLIEST MONTH IN MORE THAN 30 YEARS

Meanwhile, Democrats seemed fixated on the force used by police officers when combatting riots.

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Portland has been a city under siege. (Screenshot KGW)

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, says Tuesday’s hearing should instead be called: “The right of the people peaceably to assemble without being beaten up by unidentifiable federal agents.”

“That would address an actual problem lawful protesters are facing and the rest of us are seeing in this country,” Hirono said.

Hirono must discount the 140 injured federal agents due to “peaceful protests.”

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., described a flowery scene in Portland before federal LEOs arrived. And like many of his Democrat colleagues, he blamed the feds for violence, not the rioters.

  • PORTLAND RIOTER OUTED BY HIS GRANDMOTHER AFTER SHE IDENTIFIED HIM THROWING EXPLOSIVE DEVICE

Cuccinelli said there’s a difference between protesters and the rioters committing acts of violence.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., defended the work of federal officers in Portland, Fox reported.

“If we had done nothing, what would have happened to the courthouse, Mr. Cuccinelli, in Portland?” Graham asked.

Cuccinelli responded:  “That courthouse wouldn’t be there.”

“So I challenge anyone on the other side to say differently,” Graham said. “If we hadn’t intervened they’d have burned the god–n thing down.”


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