#3 In this case, FBI bungling comes close to giving them some credibility.
To start with, the FBI recruited some real criminal scum to act as an informant, and finding nothing amiss, the criminal scum tried to agitate the Muslims to commit acts of terrorism. So much so that the Muslims complained to the police that the informant was a radical terrorist and should be arrested, or at least investigated.
The police soon discovered that he was an FBI informant, so did nothing, leaving the Muslims with the impression of police indifference.
This sort of pushes the boundaries of acceptable police behavior. |