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In the United States, Black Identity Extremists was a designation used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from August 2017 to July 2019. It first appeared in a counterterrorism report dated August 3, 2017 sent to thousands of American police departments and described safety concerns about allegedly violent African-American activists.[1] The term was discontinued when the FBI merged several classifications under the umbrella term of “racially motivated violent extremism”.[2]
- ^ "US judge orders release of 'first Black Identity Extremist'". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ^ Tau, Byron (July 23, 2019). "FBI Abandons Use of Term 'Black Identity Extremism'". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 25, 2020.