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White Supremacists Discuss Weaponizing Coronavirus as Bioweapon

H. Michael Harvey, JD
2 min readMar 22, 2020

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According to a story published by Yahoo News, federal law enforcement has documented discussions among white supremacists where they talked about using coronavirus as a bioweapon.

According to the documented discussions, any white supremacists who contact the coronavirus is duty-bound to spread the virus among law enforcement officers and “nonwhite” people.

Based on this federal investigative report written by the Federal Protective Service, which covers the week of February 17–24, 2020, “Violent extremists continue to make bioterrorism a popular topic among themselves. White Radically Motivated Violent Extremists have recently commented on the coronavirus stating that it is an ‘OBLIGATION’ to spread it should any of them contract the virus.”

Yahoo reports, “According to the document, the extremists discussed a number of methods for coronavirus attacks, such as spending time in public with perceived enemies, leaving ‘saliva on door handles’ at local FBI offices, spitting on elevator buttons and spreading coronavirus germs in ‘nonwhite neighborhoods.’”

“Homeland Security has identified white supremacist violence as one of the major domestic extremist threats facing the United States, and there has been a push to start tracking such groups the way U. S…

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H. Michael Harvey, JD
H. Michael Harvey, JD

Written by H. Michael Harvey, JD

Harvey is Living Now Book Awards 2020 Bronze Medalist for his memoir Freaknik Lawyer: A Memoir on the Craft of Resistance. Available at haroldmichaelharvey.com

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