So a little history that I did not know. Listening to the Longform Podcast and the interviewee, Wesley Lowery, indicated that the best thing for white supremacists when there is a Black Lives Matter Protest is to show up and cause chaos. As he says “If your a white supremacist one of the best things that can happen is a bunch of black people who are advocating for their rights and for justice to look bad to the public…So a protest that is peaceful suddenly turns into a bunch of looting and fire and you the white supremacist get to say, see look at those animals. You love that, you literally want that, and there was a, I mean local context in Minneapolis, there was a mass shooting at a Black Lives Matter protest where a white Supremacist showed up and shot five people.” This happened but was immediately overshadowed by other events. It happened on 11/24/15 here is follow-up coverage in 11/15. He states that it is the explicit motive of White Supremacists to hasten the race war and disrupting these types of events they feel make it more likely Whites will turn against Blacks. See the comments for references.

Wesley Lowery is a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for “Fatal Force,” a Washington Post project covering fatal shootings by police officers.