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ByMarkGillispie The Associated Press CLEVELAND ANorthCar- olina man arrested Thurs- day on accusations that he tried to recruit people to jointheIslamicStategroup had communicated with one of two men shot dead by a police officer in Gar- land, Texas, during an at- tack at an event where the Muslim prophet Moham- med was being depicted in cartoons, the FBI said. Erick Jamal Hendricks, 35, was arrested Thurs- day morning in Char- lotte, North Carolina, on a charge filed in Cleveland of providing material sup- port to a terrorist group. A federal magistrate in Charlotte ordered that Hendricks be detained and assigned a federal public defender, who did not re- turn telephone messages. An FBI affidavit details online communications between Hendricks and an undercover FBI agent pos- ing as an Islamic State re- cruit who witnessed the at- tack at the suburban Dal- lasciviccenterinMay2015. Two Phoenix men wear- ing body armor and carry- ing rifles drove to the cen- ter, exited a vehicle and began shooting at the en- trance. An off-duty police officer providing secur- ing for the event fatally shot both men before they could get inside. An un- armed security guard was shot in the ankle. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack and referred to the two Phoenix men, El- ton Simpson and Nadir Hamid Soofi, as "broth- ers." Shortly before the at- tack, the 31-year-old Simp- son posted on his Twitter account: "May Allah ac- cept us as mujahideen," or holy warriors. Simpson and Hendricks had communicated before the attack, the FBI said Thursday. Hendricks also commu- nicated with the under- cover FBI agent in Garland, asking questions about se- curity and how many peo- ple were there, the affida- vit said. Hendricks told the agent that if he saw the or- ganizer of the event that he should "make his voice heard against her," investi- gators wrote. It appears that charges were filed in Cleveland be- cause of Hendricks' com- munication with Amir Said Abdul Rahman Al- Ghazi, who was arrested in June 2015 in suburban Cleveland trying to buy an AK-47 rifle from an under- cover FBI agent. Authori- ties said Al-Ghazi had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State and ex- pressed an interest in con- ducting attacks in the U.S. Earlier this year, Al- Ghazi pleaded guilty to providing material sup- port to a terrorist organi- zation and, according to the affidavit, has been co- operating with authorities. Al-Ghazi told authori- ties that Hendricks said he needed people to join the cause and wanted "broth- ers" to meet and train to- gether, the affidavit said. The undercover FBI agent confirmed in the affidavit that his communications with Hendricks were sim- ilar to Al-Ghazi's. Hendricks told the un- dercover agent that he slept with his AK-47 and kept it by the front door, investigators said. He di- rected the agent to down- load a manual titled "GBS for the Ghuraba in the U.S." that discussed law enforcement surveillance and communication pro- tocols for those planning to stage attacks, the affi- davit said. TERRORISM CHARGE FBI arrests man, says he had contact with 2 Texas attackers By Corey Williams and Emily Swanson The Associated Press DETROIT Crystal Webb cringes whenever a patrol car appears in her rear- view mirror. She also never wants to see the inside of a police station again. Her personal experi- ence with police, plus re- cent fatal shootings of un- armed black men by white officers, has led the Apple Valley, California, mother of two to ask: Who are the good guys and who are bad? "You are the people I'm supposed to go to when I'm in trouble," Webb says of po- lice. Two-thirds of young Af- rican-Americans and 4 in 10 Hispanics say that they or someone they know has experienced violence or ha- rassment at the hands of the police, according to a new GenForward poll. That in- cludes about 2 in 10 in each group who say that was a personal experience, includ- ing about 3 in 10 black men who say the same. But the poll also shows that young people still want a police presence in their communities. GenForward is a survey of adults age 18 to 30 by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Re- search. The first-of-its-kind poll pays special attention to the voices of young adults of color, highlighting how race and ethnicity shape the opinions of a new gen- eration. Those poll results come after the killing of several young black men by police around the country. Two of the more recent kill- ings were the July 5 shoot- ing death of Alton Sterling during a struggle with offi- cers in Baton Rouge, Loui- siana, and the fatal shoot- ing of Philando Castile the following day by an officer in a suburb of St. Paul, Min- nesota. Those shootings were fol- lowed by the July 7 killing of five officers in Dallas by a black gunman during a pro- test against police shoot- ings of black suspects. Two police officers and one sher- iff's deputy were shot and killed by a black gunman during a July 17 ambush in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. About 6 in 10 young adults consider the killings of black people by the po- lice and violence against the police as extremely or very serious problems, according to the poll. But young Af- rican-Americans and His- panics see killings by po- lice as more serious prob- lems and young whites see violence against the police as more serious. Most, es- pecially blacks and Hispan- ics, say not-guilty verdicts for three Baltimore police officers charged in the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray give them less confidence in the police. Gray, 25, was fatally in- jured while handcuffed and shackled in the back of the van. Among young whites and Asians in the new poll, just 3 in 10 say they or some- one they know has experi- enced police harassment, and just 1 in 10 white and 1 in 20 Asians say that was a personal experience. Webb, who is black, says she was arrested last No- vember by two officers — one white, the other black. "They threw me in the police car and when I gave them my story, the other officer who was white gave me a look," she said. "While the officer of color was ask- ing questions and being nice, the other officer got in the car and started yell- ing at me. He told me to just shut up." The charges eventually were dropped by a judge, she said. The new poll shows young people, including young blacks and Hispan- ics, do want a police pres- ence in their communities. In fact, most support add- ing more police or armed security guards in public places like schools, movie theaters and malls. Billy Busby, 24, of At- lanta, says he was work- ing a security job and help- ing police in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with crowd and traffic control dur- ing the popular Black Bike Beach in May when he was approached by a white of- ficer. "The officer came up to me and said, 'What are you doing here?' I said, 'I'm sorry, I'm doing my job.' She said, 'You need to move or I'm going to arrest you,'" Busby said. Busby said his supervisor showed up, vouched for him and defused the situation. "I think she felt intim- idated because I was a black male and doing traf- fic," Busby said. 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