Oren Segal, the director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said it’s unlikely Johnson came across the obscure AADL, which has for years called for the deaths of white police officers, by accident.
“The fact that he liked the African American Defense League is interesting because it’s sort of a one-man operation,” Segal told The Daily Beast.
But Millere may not have been entirely alone. He referred to Malik Zulu Shabazz, the former head of the New Black Panther Party, as a board member of the AADL in a Facebook post provided to The Daily Beast by Segal.
Years ago, however, Shabazz took credit for the creation of the AADL, saying that he later handed it off to Millere, Segal said. Shabazz allegedly posted on Facebook that the group was a “broad based organization that will organize and defend our human rights.” (The posts have since been deleted, Segal said.)
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