Posts by MCAC(Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center)
How white supremacist fight clubs are building covert far-right militias
White supremacist groups using the guise of fitness and martial arts to attract and grow their numbers are effectively creating a new militia network, with dozens of chapters forming in the US, Canada and across Europe within just three years, according to a newly published report from extremism researchers. At least 46 so-called “active clubs”…
Read MoreA trial opens in France over the killing of a police couple in the name of the Islamic State
It wasn’t the deadliest attack in Europe linked to the Islamic State group, but it was among the most disturbing: One evening in 2016, an assailant killed two police officers in their family home, in front of their 3-year-old son. On Monday, a trial opened in a French counterterrorism court over the attack in the…
Read MoreUS Military Captures Key Islamic State Militant During Helicopter Raid in Syria
The U.S. military said Monday it had captured an operator for the Islamic State extremist group during a helicopter raid in northern Syria. The operator, Abu Halil al-Fad’ani, “was assessed to have relationships throughout the ISIS network in the region,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement. His capture on Saturday increases the chance that…
Read MoreRecent antisemitic incident at Montgomery Co. high school raises concerns about hate across Maryland
There’s an increased need to take “concrete steps to confront antisemitism” in Montgomery County, Maryland, said Alan Ronkin, the regional director of the American Jewish Committee. The AJC released a statement following the report of students who, according to Montgomery Blair High School principal Renay Johnson, performed an “antisemitic salute” outside the school building during…
Read More17 Hells Angels, associates face charges after hate-attack in Ocean Beach: San Diego DA
Seventeen people have been indicted on various charges involving an attack on three Black men by members of the Hells Angels biker gang in San Diego this year, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said Monday. The victims, ages 19, 20 and 21, were chased and attacked in San Diego’s Ocean Beach neighborhood on…
Read MoreArkansas man arrested for possessing booby traps, explosives
A Johnson County man has been arrested for allegedly possessing booby traps and homemade explosives. Tristan Justice, of Ozone, was arrested for possession of a booby trap, criminal use of a prohibited weapon, possession of explosive material or a destructive device, possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving while suspended. A release from…
Read MoreEl Paso Walmart shooter agrees to pay more than $5.5 million in restitution in federal case
The gunman who killed 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart in one of the deadliest attacks targeting Latinos in modern US history has agreed to pay more than $5.5 million in restitution to those impacted by the shooting. Patrick Crusius, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in the attack, reached…
Read MoreTipsters Lead Police To Armed Man At Virginia Church Following Instagram Threats
Falls Church resident Rui Jiang, 35, is facing charges after a joint investigation into alleged threats at the Park Valley Church in Haymarket on Sunday, Sept. 24. Investigators say that the Fairfax County Police Department alerted authorities in Prince William County about a tipster in Anne Arundel County about a man in Laurel who posted…
Read MoreMolotov cocktails thrown at Cuban embassy in Washington
An anonymous submission was received by a high school’s stating that they would “shoot up the school” on Tuesday and specified “special ed kids.” An assailant attacked the Cuban embassy in Washington with two Molotov cocktails on Sunday night, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said on X, adding that nobody was hurt. The attack…
Read MoreTwo people killed in explosion in northern Hungary, media report
Two people, including a police officer, were killed and several others injured in an explosion during a police operation in the northern city of Esztergom, online media reported on Wednesday. Police and spokesmen for the Hungarian prosecution service declined immediate comment. Hungarian online media reported that the blast went off in a house on the…
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