Mike German

2 months ago | brennancenter.org | Mike German

White supremacists and far-right militants are celebrating the start of President Trump’s second term in the White House, just as they did at the beginning of his first. After the November 2016 election, Richard Spencer and 200 of his fellow white nationalists gathered at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC.

Jan 12, 2025 | schwartzreport.net | Mike German |Stephan Schwartz

In Policing White Supremacy, former FBI agent Mike German, who worked undercover in white supremacist and militia groups, issues a wake-up call about law enforcement’s dangerously lax approach to far-right violence. German has been a Brennan Center fellow since 2014, and the book is coauthored by Beth Zasloff.

Jan 8, 2025 | brennancenter.org | Mike German

This excerpt originally appeared in Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within, published by The New Press. It is hard to overstate the danger that white supremacist police pose to people they are sworn to protect. Yet the FBI has shown stubborn resistance to acknowledging the problem. Just over three months before the attack on the Capitol, I testified in the House of Representatives regarding the unfortunate persistence of racism, white supremacy, and far-right militancy within law enforcement.

Jun 13, 2024 | thehill.com | Mike German

Members of Congress from both parties have called on the FBI to investigate students protesting U.S. support for Israel in the war in Gaza on college campuses across the country, alleging without evidence that they support Hamas terrorism or may be funded by Russia. In a recent interview, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that while the bureau provides threat intelligence to campus leaders and local police, “we don’t monitor protests.”Wray’s denial is misleading at best.