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FIELD INTELLIGENCE REPORT

DHS I&A
TARGET AUDIENCE: External

1. SUBJECT: FIR-0083-20: (U//LES) Violent Opportunists Using a Stolen Minneapolis Police

Department Portal Radio to Influence Minneapolis Law Enforcement Operations in Late May
2020

2. SUMMARY: (U//LES) On 31 May 2020, Violent Opportunists used a stolen Minneapolis

Police Department (MPD) portable radio to influence law enforcement activity during anti-riot
operations.

3. DOI: 5/31/2020

4. CUTOFF: 5/31/2020

5. DATE OF ACQUISITION: 5/31/2020

PLACE OF ACQUISITION: Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota

6. SOURCE 1: 40070619

7. COUNTRY: USA

8. TEXT: (U//LES) On 31 May 2020, violent opportunists used a stolen Minneapolis Police
Department (MPD) portable radio to counter law enforcement anti-riot operations in Minnesota.
Minneapolis Emergency Communications Center (MECC) officials observed two instances in
which violent opportunists conducted unauthorized use of the radio in order to influence law
enforcement operations.

(U//LES) In the first instance, violent opportunists pressed the radio’s emergency button twice,
sending an emergency signal to dispatch prompting the dispatcher to conduct a status check on
the law enforcement officer. (SOURCE COMMENT: It is likely the violent opportunist pressed
the emergency signal as a means to disrupt law enforcement communications on the channel).

(U//LES) In the second instance, an unidentified violent opportunist broadcasted “stand down…
go home” on the radio as law enforcement officers maneuvered towards violent opportunists
during anti-riot operations. MECC officials successfully deactivated the radio remotely after
identifying it. (SOURCE COMMENT: It is likely the radio was stolen from the third MPD
precinct that violent opportunists destroyed on 28 May 2020).

9. COMMENTS:

A. SOURCE COMMENTS: None.

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B. FIELD COMMENTS: (U//FOUO) Violent Opportunists are Illicit actors who may or
may not hold violent extremist ideological beliefs, but seek to exploit opportunities in
non-violent protests to engage in unlawful violence against federal, state, or local
government and law enforcement personnel or facilities, as well as other critical
infrastructure, that either poses a danger to human life, threat of potential destruction of
the critical infrastructure, or would be so disruptive as to endanger the minimal
operations of state and local governments to respond. These actors may capitalize on
violent extremist narratives often espoused by organized Domestic Violent Extremist
(DVE) movements, such as anarchist extremists or racially motivated violent extremists,
to justify violent activities that may potentially destroy government critical infrastructure
at the state, local and federal levels, and may attempt to incite others to violence to
provide cover for their own illicit activities. Their primary motivations may be influenced
by a variety of criminal objectives and goals.

10. PASS TO:

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lower systems.

13. USPER INFORMATION? No.

14. ATTACHMENTS: No.

15. REQUIREMENTS: FEMA -Domestic Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources; ICE-
10000-16-2.2; FPS-TERR-1.6; ODHS2400001117; ODHS2400001216; ODHS1500001520;
HSEC-1.7.3; HSEC-1.8.1; HSEC-3.3.2; HSEC-8.8.2; HSEC-8.8.3

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