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UNCLASSIFIED/LAW ENFORCEMIENT $EN$ITIVE (U/FOUO)-On 21 November 2014, a BIE was arrested and eventually convicted for purchasing explosives the subject intended to use in the Ferguson area upon release of the grand jury verdict for the police officer involved in the shooting death of Brown.25 He previously discussed a desire to kill the white St. Louis County prosecutor and the white Ferguson police chief who were involved in Brown's case, according to FBI case information. Additionally, the subject had ties to a BIE group2' that had discussed ambushing possessed a Moorish identification card according to open source reporting. 32 (U) Perspective (U//FOUO) BIEs have historically justified and perpetrated violence against Iaw enforcement, which they perceived as representative of the institutionalized oppression of African Americans, but had not targeted law enforcement with premeditated violence for the nearly two decades and 1970s in response to changing socioeconomic attitudes and treatment of blacks during the Civil Rights Movement. BIE groups, such as the Black Liberation Army (BLA), which was created in the early 1970s to "take up arms for the liberation and self-determination of black people in the United States," engaged in murders, bank robberies, kidnappings, racketeering, possession of explosives, and weapons smuggling.. (U) From 1970 to 1984, the BLA was involved in at least 38 criminal incidents, including 26 armed assaults, 3 assassinations, 4 bombings, and 4 hijackings and hostage takings Almost half of these attacks took place in predominantly African American. neighborhoods and targeted law enforcement officers without regard to their race according to an open source database.33 (U//FOUO) BIE violence has been rare over the past 20 years and there is sparse evidence of any convergence with SCEs who adhere to Moorish beliefs, who have historically engaged in nonviolent fraudulent schemes-including production of fraudulent personal identification documents such as International Motorist Certifications, passports, vehicle titles and registrations, and birth certificates-in support of their claims of sovereignty. In addition. although non-Moorish SCEs have committed lethal violence against law enforcement in the past this violence has typically occurred in response to encounters with law enforcement-for example, during traffic stops or the issuing of warrants-rather than through premeditated. targeted aggression. In addition, not all self-identified Moors are sovereign citizens, and not all sovereign citizen Moors engage in violence against law enforcement or other illegal activity (U//FOUO) The FBI has previously reported on BIE retaliatory violence against law enforcement in two products. This intelligence assessment addresses actual incidents of Iethal retaliatory violence. The previous black identity extremism intelligence products discussed calls for potential retaliatory violence, not actual violent incidents. Recent lethal violent incidents may be indicative of a resurgence of targeted violence within the BIE movement. UNCLASSIFIED/ALAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE 6