International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Assoc Claims Radical Black Lives Matter Group & Antifa are Domestic Terrorists
International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Assoc Claims Radical Black Lives Matter Group & Antifa are Domestic Terrorists. IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A prominent law enforcement training group is promoting a lengthy research document riddled with falsehoods and conspiracies that urges local police to treat Black Lives Matter activists as terrorists plotting a violent revolution. The document distributed by the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association contains inflammatory rhetoric that could incite officers against protesters and people of color. The report alleges Black Lives Matter and antifa, an umbrella term for leftist militants, are “revolutionary movements whose aims are to overthrow the U.S. government” and claims they are planning “extreme violence.” The association in October sent a link to the 176-page paper, “Understanding Antifa and Urban Guerrilla Warfare,” in an email news update to its thousands of members. The document, labeled “r...