Tyler O'Neil

The SPLC was funding cross burnings and had an employee who was literally in bed with a neo-Nazi.

We love our black youth.

They deserve protection too.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I'd say some of the biggest takeaways are that the SPLC was funding cross burnings, was funding KKK hoods and robes, and had an employee who is literally in bed with a neo-Nazi, a member of a neo-Nazi organization.

It doesn't hold up with the specifics in this superseding indictment.

They do have in their history, they've claimed a few situations.

where information from one of these field sources did lead to prosecutions from the DOJ.

And of course, the SPLC did face violence.

Their offices were firebombed in 1983.

But all that said, most of the evidence in this superseding indictment suggests that they were using their informant program to prop up the very hate they claim to exist to dismantle.

Yes.

So the indictment goes through many different examples of field sources who were not just receiving money from the SPLC to lay low and then feed information to the SPLC, but who allegedly took the money from the SPLC and used it to grow new chapters of hate groups, to expand chapters of these extremist groups.

to travel to and facilitate others' travel to extremist gatherings, and of course, to actually use materials to promote their white nationalist messaging.

Over and over again, we see this pattern.

And of course, some of this stuff makes sense as an outgrowing of their informant program, but it definitely does not meet the original understanding of what an informant program sets out to do.

Yes, I think the biggest thing that has always stood out to me is the bank fraud charges because the wire fraud allegations rely on a more complex theory.

But in bank fraud, we have statements from the SPLC saying one thing,

that they opened these accounts that the DOJ says are fictitious entities in order to funnel money to their so-called informants.

They opened these accounts with an SPLC employee saying, I am the owner of this account.