Moreover, many police officers came to the protests imbued with far-right ideologies. In 2015, an FBI counterterrorism report found “active links” between law enforcement and White supremacist and other antidemocratic groups. By 2019, studies of posts by former and retired police officers active in Facebook groups found that 1 in 5 current officers and 2 in 5 retired ones have made racist and dehumanizing comments about Blacks, Muslims, and other groups targeted by the Trump administration.
