Leaders of the African People's Socialist Party say the FBI carried out a violent raid on its properties with flash grenades and drones early Friday morning in Missouri and Florida. The pan-Africanist group has been a longtime advocate for reparations for slavery and a vocal critic of U.S. foreign policy. The raid appears to be connected to a separate indictment of a Russian man accused of using U.S.-based groups to spread Russian propaganda and tampering with U.S. elections. We speak with Omali Yeshitela, chair of the African People's Socialist Party, who describes how he was zip-tied while his home was raided. He says the FBI's implication that their group was taking orders from the Russians is "the most ridiculous, asinine" narrative. "It's an attack on the right of Black people," says Yeshitela. "It's an attack on our struggle for the absolute total liberation of every square inch of Africa."

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