Former FBI Agent Mike German Explains Why Law Enforcement Fails to Take Far-Right Extremism Seriously, Even Within Its Own Ranks

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Mike German is a fellow with the Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. He has worked at the ACLU and served sixteen years as an FBI special agent, 12 of which he was tasked with combating domestic terrorism, sometimes going undercover and infiltrating white supremacist groups and militias.

German is the author of Thinking Like a Terrorist as well as Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Our Democracy. Today, he joins us to talk about his new book Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within, which comes out Jan. 7. In it, he urges law enforcement to prioritize combatting far-right violence and to finally end tolerance for racism and extremism within its ranks.

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