Alabama 4channer with body armor guns down three police officers, fatally shoots one

While protesting Black Lives Matter activists and the FBI’s “black identity extremists” remain popular bogeymen in the eyes of law-and-order conservatives, an Alabaman reminded us that the most lethal threat to police lives from a radical terrorist element in the United States comes from the white far right. Three officers were shot, one of them fatally, when they responded to a domestic disturbance  in Auburn on Sunday night. The man arrested, Grady Wayne Wilkes, 29, a veteran, posted memes from the alt-right online gathering spot 4chan, most of them mock humor about guns, white nationalist trolling signals, and encouragement for Proud Boys-style violence against left-wing protesters, who he described as “leftist scum.”