US judge orders release of ‘first Black Identity Extremist’
Critics say African American activist Christopher Daniels has been held since December because FBI policed his views.
A US judge has ordered that Christopher Daniels, considered by many to be the first person arrested under the FBI's Black Identity Extremist (BIE) designation, be released from pre-trial detention and dismissed the indictment against him.
Daniels, a cofounder of the Huey P Newton Gun Club and Guerilla Mainframe (GMF), two armed organisations based in Dallas who regularly protest against alleged police brutality, "is entitled to be released from pre-trial detention based on the dismissal of the indictment", Judge Sidney Fitzwater wrote in the order issued on May 1.
Daniels was arrested in December by the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for possessing rifles ...