Who were these white
supremacists who had descended
on Charlottesville?
And why did the authorities seem
so unprepared?
♪ ♪
I arrive in New York to meet
with a retired FBI agent, a man
who infiltrated neo-Nazi groups
during the 1990s.
This is from Charlottesville.
>> Mike German tracked the
violence in Charlottesville as
it unfolded.
>> This is when the police
should be there and they aren't.
And not even in view.
I mean you can't even see
somebody close by.
I mean it's one thing to, okay,
watch these guys trade some
punches and then follow them as
they separate and grab them.
>> THOMPSON: Right.
>> They weren't even doing that
or let them go home but then
pick them up.
Because you can identify them
pretty easily.
And what's interesting about
Charlottesville is that it was
that it was after almost two
years of increasing violence at
these protests.
(shouting)
There was Anaheim...
♪ ♪
Sacramento...
(shouting)
The first Berkeley protest in
2017.
The Huntington Beach protest.
(crowd chanting "U.S.A.")
The second Berkeley protest was
even more violent.
The fifth, sixth, seventh in a
series.
I could see from my office here
in New York City how this was
building.
This was not just predictable
but predicted.
I couldn't believe that there
wasn't better intelligence being
provided by the federal
government, by the FBI and
Department of Homeland Security,
particularly when people are
coming in from out of state,
they should be warning them.
These are people who engaged in
violence in Berkeley.
These are people who engaged in
violence in Huntington Beach.
Where was the FBI?
Unless the FBI too has just
abandoned this ground, which I
would find even more shocking.
>> THOMPSON: And your sort of
sense is like if you allow folks
to go out and act very violently
over and over and over again in
these political spaces then they
basically start to think, "Hey,
the cops are okay with us."
>> Right, "They're going to
protect me coming in, let me do
it and then protect me going
out."
Now that these groups feel that
they have some state sanction
for that, they are going to be a
lot more dangerous in the coming
years.
♪ ♪
>> THOMPSON: "Where was the
FBI?" Mike German wondered.
They had issued warnings about
white supremacy violence before
Charlottesville, but those
warnings have failed to stop the
bloodshed.
No one from the bureau will sit
down with me, but they send me
a statement.
The FBI said while it doesn't
police ideology, it has long
investigated white supremacy
extremists and it will enforce
the rule of law.
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