White Supremacists Suspected in Police Attacks

[Roy Hobs]

A device attached to the gate at this house used by police in Hemet, Calif., fired a bullet that narrowly missed an officer

Funny how whenever some group (white supremists; alquieda etc) does something that doesn't accomplish anything, the method of attack is so lame!  You go to all the trouble to hook up a device that shoots a bullet -- unable to aim accurately -- as a terrorist attack???!!!  Amazing.

The SPLC probably had their minions out there rigging up some stupid device themselves.

Thank God the SPLC is on it however -- Earlier this year, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported a rise in anti-government and hate-based groups, which mirrored an earlier warning by the federal government

I'm sure more of the same will continue.  Those darn white supremacists -- aka frank collins!

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LOS ANGELES (April 21) -- A series of potentially deadly booby traps targeting police officers in the desert community of Hemet may have been the work of a white supremacist gang, authorities say.

A Riverside County task force rounded up 23 people Tuesday as part of a sweep that included using search warrants at 35 locations, all tied to suspected gang activity. Authorities last month had arrested 33 members of the Vagos Motorcycle Club, and speculation about who was responsible for the attacks had centered on gang members or their supporters.

 
Reed Saxon, AP
A device attached to the gate at this house used by police in Hemet, Calif., fired a bullet that narrowly missed an officer in February.But the Los Angeles Times, citing an anonymous law enforcement official, reports that authorities believe the people rounded up Tuesday in connection with the attacks were part of a white supremacist gang. And a lawyer for the Vagos club told the Times that none of the people detained Tuesday were Vagos members. Only half of the Vagos members arrested earlier had been charged with crimes as of last week.

Earlier this year, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported a rise in anti-government and hate-based groups, which mirrored an earlier warning by the federal government. Authorities see overlaps among some of the race-based groups and those rejecting the U.S. government's authority.

The California attacks took place in Hemet, a city of some 71,000 about 90 miles southeast of Los Angeles. No officers were hurt, but some of the attacks were potentially deadly. In February, a gun was rigged up to fire when a gate was opened. A bullet narrowly missed an officer when, to wrest open the sticky gate, he turned from where the gun was aimed.

In December, a natural gas line was redirected through the roof of the Hemet-San Jacinto Valley Gang Task Force office building, filling it with deadly and combustible gas, which officers discovered when they arrived for work in the morning.

Last month, a pipe bomb attached to a task force car was defused by the bomb squad. A suspicious fire also gutted a building at a police shooting range, and four city service trucks were torched, though authorities were uncertain whether those incidents were tied to the other attacks.

Authorities offered a $200,000 reward for information on whoever was responsible for the attacks. It was not known whether that led to a tip prompting Tuesday's raids. And the city voted recently to spend $165,000 in emergency no-bid contracts to add shatter-proof shields and surveillance equipment to the police department headquarters and city hall.