Here’s some background on this extremist group that may be helpful in gaining situational awareness for residents and visitors to the Tellico Plains area, popular for outdoor recreation, OHV, and scenic drives.

The article includes a diagram of the icon glimpsed on uniforms in the reporting.

Slightly more information in a longer video lifted from a promo piece by Rob Picheta, who does not appear to be on Bluesky.

I respectfully request @cnn.com remove the paywall from this report so residents & visitors in Southeast Tennessee can better assess their risk exposure to violent extremists.

Some video that isn’t paywalled (and @cnn.com I appreciate where you’re coming from but for safety reasons, not sure this report should be paywalled).

Scratch that— maybe it worked briefly, but the intruding pop up returned with a vengeance.

See the top right and option to embed— I wonder if embedding the content on another page might sidestep the login prompt.

Nice work tracking down the alternate content. Solid #AltCitizen work there.

Short term fix: if you click “cancel” on the pop up prompting you to log in, that may close the pop up so you may view the content as planned before the pop-up intrudes.

Seemed to work on mobile, anyway.

Trees are constantly falling in the forest, and no one is around to hear them. Joe Biden grew the weakest trees, they fall over in the slightest breeze. And he never raked the forests. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

In my view Antifa is definitely a real movement, but it’s decisively NOT a terrorist organization.

And certainly not the “top” threat, even if it was— incredulously— a threat.

The idea that Antifa is a terrorist organization is the make-believe bit.