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UNCLASSIFIED//LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE perpetrators were motivated by a mix of BIE ideology and Moorish sovereign citizen extremist. (SCE) ideology, a category of SCE ideology. The FBI assesses it is very likely BIE adoption of a Moorish SCE identity reinforced a sense of disenfranchisement from society and a perception that the criminal justice system is unjust. (U) On 4 October and 13 October 2016, an individual allegedly shot at two different police stations in Indianapolis, Indiana. The subject left a hand-written note at the scene of one of the shootings, in which he identified himself as a Moor and made anti-white statements. The subject posted pictures on social media of African American men carrying assault rifles. behind text calling for social injustice and retribution.' The subject was later involved in a shootout with police during his arrest on related charges according to law enforcement (U//LES) On 17 July 2016, Gavin Eugene Long ambushed and shot six law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, before eventually being killed by police.'2 The deceased. victims included one African American officer and one white officer from the Baton Rouge Police Department, and one white officer from the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office Long had expressed black separatist rhetoric both on social media and in his manifesto, including rants against "crackers" and reference to an African American male killed by with the police and criminal justice system in the United States and saw his actions "as a necessary evil... in order to create substantial change."15 A law enforcement search of Long's laptop contained biographical information and residential addresses of two officers- involved in the Alton Sterling shooting, and Google searched directions to one of the officer's home address." Long had also declared himself to be a Moor, had changed his. slave" name to the Moorish name Cosmo Ausar Setepenra, and was carrying a Moorish (U//LES) On 13 September 2016, an individual reportedly intentionally drove his vehicle toward three white officers with the Police Department in Phoenix, Arizona, outside a gas station, striking two of them before he was arrested. ' The subject's social media accounts. over police shootings since at least the killing of Brown in 2014.22 Consistent with BIE statements on social media, the subject stated, "The Caucasian needs to be slaughtered like c (U/FOuO)Moorish sovercign citizens are a loose nctwork of mostly African Americans who bclicve they are sovcrcign cntitics who do not recognize the authority of the US Govcrnment. Moorish sovercign citizen ideology derivcs from thc Moorish Scicncc Tcmple of Amcrica. a non-violent rcligious and cultural movcment foundcd in 1913 by Nobcl Drew Ali. who taught his followers they were not "negroes' but Moors. people of North African Berber and Arab descent. Some Moorish adherents adopt sovereign citizen strategies to assert diplomatic immunity by claiming membership in fictitious Native American tribes. claiming descent from seitlers who arrived in North America during the pre-Columbian era. or identifying as foreign nationals or ambassadors. (Source: FBI: Primer: January 2014: "(U) Black Separatist Extremists: An Introduction for Law Enforcement": UNCLASSIFIED: UNCLASSIFIED: Multiplc sources.) UNCLASSIFIED/LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE 5