Charges Dropped in First Case Against ‘Black Identity Extremist’
A Texas judge has dismissed the indictment against a black community activist and released him from pre-trial detention—almost six months after the FBI placed him in federal custody.
Civil rights activists, along with friends and family of Christopher Daniels—known to his community as Rakem Balogun—believed the FBI targeted Daniels because of his supposedly radical political beliefs and anti-law enforcement rhetoric.
Daniels’ advocates believe he was the first person to be prosecuted under a new government classification for domestic terror threats, which the FBI calls “black identity extremists.” The FBI uses the term to describe individuals who resort to violence or unlawful activities “in response to perceived racism and injustice in American society,” according to a copy of the report obtained and published last year by Foreign Policy magazine.
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