FBI: ISIS Plot To Pose As Cops, Shoot Unarmed Black Men

Arlington, Virginia, August 30 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today it had foiled a plan by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to stoke racial tensions in the US even further by sending operatives to dress as police officers and shoot African-American youths who are obviously carrying no weapons.

FBI spokesman Rodney King discussed the discovery of the plot with reporters Saturday afternoon at the Bureau’s headquarters, and noted that the ISIS plan, which apparently had the code name Ferguson, had conducted several experimental operations in preparation for a major wave of violence sparked by alleged police shootings of young blacks. The aim of the plan was to foment such racial unrest in the US that the country would be far too divided and distracted domestically to mount any effective intervention in the Middle East as ISIS overruns country after country.

Hints of the preliminary operations were evident last year in Florida, when an unarmed black youth named Trayvon Martin was gunned down by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch member in the town of Sanford. The resulting media circus and exacerbation of societal rifts convinced the ISIS operatives that an even higher-profile, larger-scale effort was feasible, and they allegedly spent the two years since the Trayvon Martin incident training agents and making arrangements for a series of similar shootings, except that the political repercussions would be much stronger, as the perpetrators would be dressed as law enforcement officials.

FBI agents acted on a tip to arrest seventeen of the suspected twenty agents, but not before they could launch a successful operation in Ferguson, Missouri, last month. The initial shooting of Michael Brown, followed by what many observers called repressive police tactics in suppressing the demonstrators, was to be merely the first in a series of seven or eight such incidents, each one in a progressively more important city, culminating in simultaneous shootings in New York, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles by October.

“The nature of this plot is in some ways even more sinister than 9/11,” said King. On 9/11 Al-Qaeda struck at political, military, and economic targets, but this plot strikes at something more fundamental: our sense of unity. ISIS clearly learned that when America is attacked, Americans tend to unify. So they planned instead to undermine American unity as a means to hamstring us globally.”

King added that the operation was probably unnecessary, given the political logjam that is projected to characterize politics in the nation’s capital for the foreseeable future in any case.