The Democrats' David Duke (RedState Nov/26/16)
...Decades before Black Lives Matter, Ellison was a very prominent defender of cop killers associating with Sharif Willis after the murder of a Minneapolis police officer. Willis was with the Vice Lords, a black Muslim gang and one of the largest in the country. He participated in demonstrations on behalf of the Vice Lords and attended a national gang confab. In 2000, he called for the release of Kathleen Soliah of the Symbionese Liberation Army and heaped praise on Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur- two notorious cop killers. http://www.redstate.com/diary/davenj1/2016/11/26/democrats-david-duke/

The original RACIST BLM targeting white cops: "UNITED FOR PEACE" ---

Killing of Police Officer Chills Gang Overture in Minneapolis
May 12, 1993|RHONDA HILLBERY | SPECIAL TO THE TIME
MINNEAPOLIS — One night last September, Minneapolis traffic cop Jerome Haaf, 53, sat completing some paperwork and reading a newspaper at the Pizza Shack, a well-known police hangout in the south part of town. About 1:45 a.m, two men entered the restaurant and shot Haaf in the back. He died a few hours later.
Beginning as early as today, prosecutors will present a case charging that Haaf was assassinated by members of the Vice Lords street gang in an act of retribution against police in general.
Partly because Haaf was white and the suspects are black, the case has strained race relations and escalated tensions in Minneapolis. http://articles.latimes.com/1993-05-12/news/mn-34410_1_police-officer

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v.
A.C. FORD, Jr., Appellant.
No. C5-93-1872.
Supreme Court of Minnesota.
September 1, 1995
On September 25, 1992, Minneapolis police officer Jerome Haaf, while in uniform, was shot to death at the Pizza Shack Restaurant in south Minneapolis. Gerald Lubarski, who was sitting with Officer Haaf, was wounded... http://www.allcourtdata.com/law/case/state-v-ford/cw1A4jdE

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Democratic Candidate Keith Ellison: Minnesotans are proud — with some reason — of their state's clean politics. Minnesota Democrats have a long history of opposing racism and anti-Semitism. Despite this reputation, despite this history, Minnesota Democrats have nominated for Congress Keith Ellison, who has many blemishes on his personal record.
Ellison's record also includes a multitude of embarrassments of the traditional kind. He fell afoul of the IRS after failing to pay $25,000 in income taxes; he ignored fines that he had incurred for parking tickets and moving violations so numerous that his driver's license was suspended more times than he can remember; he was fined for willful violation of Minnesota's campaign finance reporting law. It amounts to a striking pattern of lawbreaking since he undertook the practice of law in 1990. (Ellison is the Democratic candidate in the 5th district, the most Democratic district in Minnesota, so he will almost certainly win election this November — and will, most likely, stay in Congress as long as he wishes. The current congressman in the district, Martin Sabo, is a very liberal Democrat, but a decent man, who, as far as I can tell, has always followed the laws he helps make.)
But those blemishes are minor compared to Ellison's long association with the Nation of Islam, a group that has, as Wikipedia delicately puts it, "been criticised for being racist, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, homophobic and sexist", perhaps because it is all of those things.
Ellison has tried to minimize his connections with the Nation of Islam, and to deny his own anti-Semitic statements, but he is on record too many times, in too many places, for his denials to be believed.
Ellison has also had strong connections to a violent gang. Perhaps the lowest moment in Minneapolis's history was the September 1992 execution-style murder of police officer Jerry Haaf. Haaf was shot in the back as he took a coffee break at a restaurant in south Minneapolis. The murder was a gang hit performed by four members of the city's Vice Lords gang. The leader of the Vice Lords was Sharif Willis, a convicted murderer who had been released from prison and who sought respectability as a responsible gang leader from gullible municipal authorities while operating a gang front called United for Peace.
The four Vice Lords members who murdered Haaf met and planned the murder at Willis's house. Two witnesses at the trial of one of the men convicted of Haaf's murder implicated Willis in the planning. Willis was never charged; law enforcement authorities said they lacked sufficient evidence to convict him.
Within a month of Haaf's murder, Ellison appeared with Willis supporting the United for Peace gang front. In October 1992, Ellison helped organize a demonstration against Minneapolis police that included United for Peace. "The main point of our rally is to support United for Peace [in its fight against] the campaign of slander the police federation has been waging," said Ellison. https://www.seanet.com/~jimxc/Politics/October2006_1.html#jrm4594

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Islamism and 'Vice Lords' - ALVN

A. Clark, 1999, F.E.D.S. Magazine: Finally Every Dimension of the Streets
"I would listen to speeches by Louis Farrakhan, and so many of the Vice Lords' teachings were along the same lines; I was able to identify with them. I became a Vice Lord at such a young age..." https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=by+Louis+Farrakhan%2C+and+so+many+of+the%C2%A0Vice+Lords%27+teachings+were+along+the+same+lines

Mark S. Hamm: 'The Spectacular Few: Prisoner Radicalization and the Evolving Terrorist Threat', (2013) p.44
Since the early 1980s, gangs like the Vice Lords and the Gangster Disciples have sought recognition as “Muslim circles" so that they can hold their worship services inside prison chapels. https://books.google.com/books?id=hB7344oN4wsC&pg=PA44

Su'ad Abdul Khabeer 'Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States' (2016)
...and the “Vice Lords,” who have been influenced by Islam... https://books.google.com/books?id=DwbvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43

Thomas CAMPBELL: 'SEARCH for A BLACK GODDESS: MEMOIR of a GANG MEMBER' (2009), p.174
The Vice Lords adopted Islamic symbols as part of their distinguishing themselves from other groups. The crescent moon and scimitars are popular tattoos and decorations, along with the Playboy bunny.  https://books.google.com/books?id=TvKo6bt04QAC&pg=PA174