FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is cutting ties with the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has tracked domestic extremism and racial and religious bias for decades.

It comes after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and increased attention on the group he founded, Turning Point USA . SPLC included it as a " case study in the hard right " in its report titled " The Year in Hate and Extremism 2024. "

Video above details the charges against the suspect in Charlie Kirk's death.

Patel said on Friday that the FBI would sever its relationship with the SPLC, asserting that the organization had been turned into a “partisan smear machine” and criticizing it for its use of a “ hate map ” that documents alleged anti-government and hate

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