Paul Pelosi attack highlights soaring threats of political violence The SPLC includes a number of black separatist groups in its tally, saying the groups jumped from 113 in 2014 to 180 in 2015. SPLC's count of US hate groups increased to from 784 in 2014 to 892 last year, while antigovernment organizations grew to 998, up from 874. In its annual report, released on Wednesday, the group said that the number of antigovernment and hate groups jumped dramatically in 2015, due to a range of factors, including increased fears of terrorism following attacks in Paris and California, a growing divisiveness in political speech, and wider public attention to violent encounters between police and black men.
Standing outside his house, where a sticker on the mailbox reads “SECEDE,” Josh Doggrell, the officer who was fired, told the Associated Press that the SPLC officials “have got an opinion like everybody else does and that's all it is, is an opinion about ideology.”
One officer was fired and the other quickly resigned, the Associated Press reports. The organization describes itself online as a “Southern Nationalist organization whose ultimate goal is a free and independent Southern republic,” while the SPLC defines the league as a racist, neo-Confederate group. Last June, SPLC’s Hate Watch blog featured two police officers in Anniston, Ala., who were involved with the League of the South. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s annual list of extremist groups in the United States is often seen as an authoritative survey of racist and antigovernment activity, but some organizations that have been named by the civil rights advocacy say its list serves to silence conservative viewpoints.
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