Many of the far-right posts urged followers to gear up to fight anticipated violence by Jane's Revenge. Immigration courts in Dallas, Chicago, and Portland announced that they would close early on Friday in anticipation of potentially disruptive crowds. DHS said the group allegedly claimed responsibility for vandalizing a building that houses a Congress member's campaign office and a pro-life group, and for at least three arson attacks since May targeting antiabortion organizations in Oregon, New York and Wisconsin. The DHS memo specifically identified a far-left "network of loosely affiliated suspected violent extremists, known as 'Jane's Revenge,'" that it said was linked to several threats calling for a "night of rage" over the ruling. "Only Black churches should be left standing. One post on a far-left channel called for burning all churches except Black ones. Wade decision," she said.Īlethea said it had detected fewer calls for violence on far-left channels, but Kaplan said the research was preliminary.
"On social media platforms we are seeing politically charged calls to violence from the left and the right in response to the Supreme Court's Roe v. "We anticipate that this could be a tinderbox situation," said Lisa Kaplan, founder and CEO of Alethea Group, a technology company that detects and mitigates disinformation and social media manipulation, which conducted the research into the violent posts. The posting called on "American Patriots" to "defend the faith." (The Post is withholding the name of the channel so as not to amplify its influence.)
Bring rifles and men with you," read another post on a far-right Telegram channel. Guard and protect your local pregnancy centers. Pregnancy centers are nonprofit organizations set up by antiabortion activists to counsel women against having abortions. Though the DHS memo said all sides were at risk, on far-right channels such as Fuentes', the memo was being referenced as a call to arms to protect pregnancy centers and churches from pro-abortion extremists, according to disinformation researchers. Department of Homeland Security warning that churches, judges, and abortion providers could be at a heightened risk of violence "for weeks" in response to both the ruling and expected changes in state laws and ballot measures stemming from the decision. In many posts, Fuentes and other far-right influencers referenced a memo published Friday by the U.S. could face a wave of violence from extremists. With people across the country taking to the streets to protest and support the decision, officials warned that the U.S. "DEFEND YOUR CHURCHES TONIGHT," cried far-right activist Nicholas Fuentes on his personal channel on the messaging app Telegram, where he has more than 44,000 followers. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)įringe groups on the far right and left issued calls to take up arms on Friday in a sign of escalating tension over the U.S.
It's a fundamental and deeply personal change for Americans' lives after nearly a half-century under the court's landmark Roe v. The Supreme Court has stripped away women's constitutional protections for abortion. Police officers stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington while people demonstrate Friday, June 24, 2022.
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