FBI RAIDS BLACK NATIONALISTS OVER TIES TO "RUSSIAN DISINFO"

Russian shill? Omali Yeshitela of the African People's Socialist Party

It has been apparent for some time that Russia has been attempting to stir up any divisions in America that it can by grooming, supporting, and boosting groups that promote a message of polarisation.

New evidence of this emerged this morning, with FBI raids on homes and offices connected to two Black groups in St Louis and St. Petersburg, Florida.

As reported by St Louis news site, River Front Times:

Officials of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and African People’s Socialist Party say the FBI performed a "violent" raid with flash grenades and drones around 5 a.m. Friday morning.

At a news conference Friday, Chairman Omali Yeshitela said he and his wife were handcuffed during the raid as investigators searched their home. He said the FBI threw flash grenades into his home and performed the raid without knocking or showing him a search warrant.

Yeshitela said the FBI believes the Uhuru Movement and African People’s Socialist Party may somehow be involved with Russia’s tampering in U.S. elections.

“What they have claimed is that they are indicting someone, a Russian nationalist who is in Russia,” Yeshitela said. “They have claimed that they were investigating the African People’s Socialist Party that I lead in the Uhuru Movement because of some association that we might have with the Russian government.”

There was also a raid on premises connected to the Uhuru Solidarity Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida, with The Tampa Bay Times reporting that federal law enforcement and St. Petersburg police performed searches at multiple locations.

Federal law enforcement officials appear to be investigating members of the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg for alleged connections to a Russian government official who prosecutors say directed U.S. political groups in a campaign to sow division, spread pro-Russian propaganda and interfere in U.S. elections. [...]

The searches appear to be related to an indictment that was unsealed Friday against a Russian national who is accused of working with the Russian government and intelligence services in efforts to interfere in U.S. politics.

Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, who lives in Moscow, orchestrated on behalf of the Russian government a yearslong “foreign malign influence campaign against the U.S.,” the Department of Justice said in a news release Friday. He worked with American political groups to inflame political discord and spread disinformation, prosecutors said.

Anyone who has been paying attention to Russian "Black" ops for years will not be surprised by any of this. For years now, Russian money, media, and social media manipulation have been boosting anyone whom the Russian government thinks will further its agenda of spreading social and political divisions in rival and enemy nations.