'Shocked' civil rights groups alarmed by Trump official's plan to 'embrace state violence'

Advocates for civil and constitutional rights were sounding the alarm on a Trump official's plan to combat groups deemed far-left extremists by the administration.

"A lot of people are very shocked by the language about left-wing extremists, anarchist extremists," said Chip Gibbons, the policy director at Defending Rights & Dissent, in a Saturday article by the Guardian.

Gibbons was reacting to a memo by President Donald Trump's counter-terrorism czar, Sebastian Gorka, that called...