Newly released FBI and Department of Homeland Security documents reveal that federal law-enforcement agencies worried that violent “black supremacist extremists” would kill police officers, attack the Democratic National Convention and cause chaos at the Republican National Convention last year. Even though they could find no evidence or substantial proof, federal agencies monitored black organizations and warned local and federal agencies to do the same because ... umm ... well ... did I mention the “black” part?

According to emails and reports published by Al-Jazeera (American media outlets probably missed them because they didn’t contain Donald Trump tweets), the FBI was concerned that Black Lives Matter protests would turn violent after Micah Xavier Johnson killed five police officers in Dallas during a BLM protest in July 2016. The documents, obtained by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional Rights, revealed how federal agencies began monitoring the activities of Black Lives Matter and other groups even though—by the FBI’s own admission—Johnson acted alone and had no ties to Black Lives Matter or any other black organization.

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