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Barr Orders Creation of Task Force to Fight Antifa and ‘the Boogaloo’

CHAOS AND DISORDER

The attorney general says the task force will target extremists “of all persuasions.”

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Attorney General Bill Barr has ordered the establishment of a task force to take on “anti-government extremists,” The Washington Post reports. In a memo obtained by the Post, Barr cited recent protests against police brutality, saying extremists had taken advantage of those demonstrations and “engaged in indefensible acts of violence...

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