ABC News has picked an alert issued by the FBI’s New York office: White supremacists encouraging their members to spread coronavirus to cops, Jews, FBI says
In an alert obtained by ABC News, the FBI’s New York office reports that "members of extremist groups are encouraging one another to spread the virus, if contracted, through bodily fluids and personal interactions."
The FBI alert, which went out on Thursday, told local police agencies that extremists want their followers to try to use spray bottles to spread bodily fluids to cops on the street. The extremists are also directing followers to spread the disease to Jews by going "any place they may be congregated, to include markets, political offices, businesses and places of worship."
White supremacist groups have been blaming Jews for the spread of the coronavirus — and if you think this is reminiscent of the medieval accusations that the black plague was caused by Jews poisoning wells, you are right on target. This goes so far beyond sick that I am at a loss for words.
These are the excrescences Trump says are “very fine people.”
Monday, Mar 23, 2020 · 2:05:07 AM +00:00
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Dan K
VCLib alerted me to a diary posted earlier this morning — www.dailykos.com/… — which reports on white supremacists discussing this tactic back in February. The reports cited there focus on cops and people of color.
Now Jews are added to the target list. But that’s only part of the point, because an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.