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CSUSB professor emeritus comments on loss of DOJ 'peacemaker' unit used to defuse tense protests
USA Today via MSN
Jan. 11, 2026
Criminologist and civil rights attorney Brian Levin, founding director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, was interviewed for an article about the Trump Administration’s shutdown of the federal Justice Department’s Community Relations Service, aimed at deescalating confrontations at demonstrations and helped prevent deadly police responses.
Self-mutilation and crystal meth: The ‘Chad mindset’ enticing MAGA’s young men
The Telegraph (U.K.) via Yahoo!News
Jan. 12, 2026
Brian Levin, founding director of Centre for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, was interviewed for an article about “looks-maxing,” a far-right online community of mostly young men who go to extreme lengths to transform themselves into what they deem to be the ideal male physique as a statement of power.
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