From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal. I'm Al Letson.

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Over the past month, protests have helped give unprecedented attention to the issue of police brutality.

But right-wing extremists are also trying to seize the moment.

At a Black Lives Matter rally in Richmond, Virginia, a man claiming to be a KKK leader

drove his truck into a group of protesters.

In Oakland, a California man who follows the online Bougaloo movement allegedly shot and

killed a federal security officer.

They want to kick off chaos and they want to start the race war.

And so they're always waiting for some chaotic event to happen that'll help them kick this off.

Megan Squire is a computer scientist who studies online extremism at Elon University

in North Carolina.

She's seen firsthand how the recent wave of protests and counter-protests can get out

of control.

Someone protesting the removal of Confederate monuments recently punched her in the face.

Megan says right-wing extremists are using what's in the news to spread their message.

They track pretty closely to whatever the news headlines are.

And then what they do is provide the racist, anti-Semitic villain blank spin on that news.

All of these police systems are like big funnels.

They have a variety of ways of recruiting people into them.

That's David Nyward, a reporter with the nonprofit newsroom type investigations.

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