ATLANTA — The Black Hammer Party, an Atlanta-based extremist group that preaches violent revolution against the United States government, is the target of a joint investigation by the FBI and the Fayetteville Police Department on a charges ranging from weapons offenses and narcotics to kidnapping and human trafficking.
Details of the ongoing investigation emerged in testimony Tuesday in Magistrate Court in Fayette County where two members of the cult-like group face multiple felony charges relating to an alleged kidnapping and sexual assault last month in a rented house in Fayetteville where the group had its headquarters.
Fayetteville Police Street Gang Investigator Diana Snider testified that she had been investigating the organization for several months since she read a newspaper article about the group earlier this year that revealed they had recently moved their base of operations to the south metro suburb. Around the same time, Snider said she was contacted by the FBI, which had opened its own investigation into the group. (The AJC published a lengthy article in April that detailed the group’s history of erratic behavior and its flirtation with violence.)
