The national chair of BAMN, Shanta Driver, issues the following statement:
“This is further proof that Yvette Felarca’s Sacramento arrest and charges are part of a witch-hunt against BAMN. The FBI’s interest in BAMN is part of a long-standing policy of the FBI. Starting with their campaign to persecute and slander Dr. Martin Luther King, they have a racist history of targeting peaceful civil rights and anti-racist organizations, while doing nothing to prosecute the racists and fascists who attacked Dr. King and the movement he built.
“BAMN stands on the traditions of the civil rights movement that Dr. King built.
“The FBI described the Trump supporters who put more than a dozen anti-racist demonstrators in the hospital as a “KKK” rally, even though the event was organized by two pro-Trump fascist terrorist groups: the Traditionalist Workers Party and the Golden State Skinheads. Neither is the KKK, and both have repeatedly wounded, and in the case of the TWP in Charlottesville, have gone on to kill anti-racists.
“There is never a mention of Yvette being stabbed and bludgeoned by a fascist in Sacramento. Instead of finding the person who assaulted anti-racist protesters, the FBI chose to target BAMN, which by their own admission holds demonstrations that are protected by the First Amendment.
“It’s clear the FBI dropped the investigation having no evidence of wrongdoing. It never should have been opened in the first place.”
- Shanta Driver, National Chair of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)
