The FBI on Friday acknowledged experiences of racist and offensive textual yell messages sent from nameless phone numbers are now being sent to contributors of Latino and LGBTQ communities.
“Some recipients reported being told they were chosen for deportation or to legend to a re-training camp,” the agency acknowledged.
The FBI is investigating outdated experiences of dozens of racist texts sent to Dark Americans telling them they were “chosen” to pick cotton “on the closest plantation” straight away following closing week’s election.
The FBI acknowledged the messages personal no longer resulted in violence.
The agency is working with native authorities and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and asked americans to remain vigilant and legend this kind of texts to authorities.
The CEO of LULAC (League of United Latin American Voters), Juan Proaño, acknowledged doubtlessly the latest texts remind him of the team’s cause.
“We started on yarn of this racism,” he acknowledged in an interview. “Folk forget. It be unhappy to search out us assist to where we were in some instances.”
The preliminary experiences of racist texts closing week incorporated recipients who relief universities from California to South Carolina, with some sent by process of TextNow, a provider compatible with untraceable, “burner” phone numbers.
The firm acknowledged closing week it used to be shutting down accounts inquisitive regarding the preliminary round of texts and, on Friday, it acknowledged it used to be working to stop “diversifications” of racist and offensive messaging.
“TextNow has stopped attempts to ship assorted diversifications of these harassing messages,” the firm acknowledged in an announcement Friday.
Monèt Miller, a publicist from Atlanta, acknowledged she used to be serene processing the election outcomes when she bought a textual yell message Nov. 6 from an unknown phone number that acknowledged, “Our Executive Slaves will come get dangle of you in a Brown Van” and, “Be willing to be searched down as soon as you’ve enter the plantation.”
NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson acknowledged closing week that the messages “alarming get dangle of bigger in vile and abhorrent rhetoric from racist groups across the country, who now feel emboldened to unfold detest and stoke the flames of peril that masses of us are feeling after Tuesday’s election outcomes.”
Proaño acknowledged LULAC is working with the NAACP.
“We stand sturdy with the NAACP to keep up a correspondence out in opposition to these racist acts,” he acknowledged Friday.
The FBI on Friday acknowledged the texts from the preliminary experiences were no longer identical but perceived to practice identical topics.
The agency acknowledged it be additionally sharing records on the expanding texts and emails with training institutions and faith leaders.
