Recent events in which five people were shot by three white men near the "Black Lives Matter" encampment in north Minneapolis are part of the racist backlash that followed the election of Barack Obama in 2008. On April 7, 2009, soon after the election of the first African-American as president of the United States of America, the Office of intelligence and Analysis of Homeland Security assessed that right wing extremists in the form of white supremacists and anti-government militias would be on the rise.