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CNN: 'Dallas attack seemingly first instance of deadly terrorism from extreme left in post-9/11 era'
SPLC:<ref>Daryl Johnson, [https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/return-violent-black-nationalist Return of the Violent Black Nationalist], ''Splc'', August 08, 2017.<blockquote>Gavin Long espoused antigovernment beliefs and affiliated with the Washitaw Nation, a Moorish sovereign citizen group comprised mostly of African Americans. Moorish sovereign citizens, like Long, do not recognize the authority of law enforcement or other government officials. Long regularly spoke of perceived police brutality on his social media accounts and chose to retaliate against the police, a symbolic target, as a result of his extremist views.</blockquote></ref><blockquote>Gavin Long espoused antigovernment beliefs and affiliated with the Washitaw Nation, a Moorish sovereign citizen group comprised mostly of African Americans. Moorish sovereign citizens, like Long, do not recognize the authority of law enforcement or other government officials. Long regularly spoke of perceived police brutality on his social media accounts and chose to retaliate against the police, a symbolic target, as a result of his extremist views.</blockquote>
SPLC:<ref>Daryl Johnson, [https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/return-violent-black-nationalist Return of the Violent Black Nationalist], ''Splc'', August 08, 2017.<blockquote>Gavin Long espoused antigovernment beliefs and affiliated with the Washitaw Nation, a Moorish sovereign citizen group comprised mostly of African Americans. Moorish sovereign citizens, like Long, do not recognize the authority of law enforcement or other government officials. Long regularly spoke of perceived police brutality on his social media accounts and chose to retaliate against the police, a symbolic target, as a result of his extremist views.</blockquote></ref><blockquote>Gavin Long espoused antigovernment beliefs and affiliated with the Washitaw Nation, a Moorish sovereign citizen group comprised mostly of African Americans. Moorish sovereign citizens, like Long, do not recognize the authority of law enforcement or other government officials. Long regularly spoke of perceived police brutality on his social media accounts and chose to retaliate against the police, a symbolic target, as a result of his extremist views.</blockquote>
Experts:<ref>Peter Bergen and David Sterman, [https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/08/opinions/dallas-domestic-terrorism-bergen/index.html Dallas: An act of domestic terrorism], CNN, Jul 8, 2016.<blockquote>The suspected Dallas sniper who killed five police officers has been identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, a 25-year-old from Mesquite, Texas.</blockquote></ref><i>Dallas attack seemingly first instance of deadly terrorism from extreme left in post-9/11 era</i> at the time.
Analysis:<ref>A.J. Caschetta, [https://www.meforum.org/6147/dhs-targeting-wrong-enemy Department of Homeland Security Targeting the Wrong Enemy], ''The Gatestone Institute'', via ME Forum, July 26, 2016.</ref><blockquote>[[Micah Xavier Johnson]] and Gavin Long are products of a "left wing," anti-police, anti-establishment ideology. The assassinations they carried out fit the pattern of the so-called "New Left" wave of terror carried out in the 1970s by the Weather Underground and the [[Black Panthers]].</blockquote>
Analysis:<ref>A.J. Caschetta, [https://www.meforum.org/6147/dhs-targeting-wrong-enemy Department of Homeland Security Targeting the Wrong Enemy], ''The Gatestone Institute'', via ME Forum, July 26, 2016.</ref><blockquote>[[Micah Xavier Johnson]] and Gavin Long are products of a "left wing," anti-police, anti-establishment ideology. The assassinations they carried out fit the pattern of the so-called "New Left" wave of terror carried out in the 1970s by the Weather Underground and the [[Black Panthers]].</blockquote>