New docuseries about the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas debuts on Max
A new four-part documentary examines the fall of a notorious Texas-based neo-Nazi group and the federal agent who targeted it.
The big picture:" The Takedown: American Aryans" debuted on Max last week. It takes viewers inside the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a white supremacist gang and organized crime group, from the late 2000s to today.
Zoom in: The series spotlights agent Richard Boehning of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). It features never-before-heard wiretaps and secret recordings from the case.
Viewers hear from the families of people impacted by violence, incarcerated gang members and a woman who went undercover inside the group.
Context: The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas began in the Texas prison system in the 1980s. It's unrelated to the Aryan Brotherhood gang formed in California in the 1960s, per the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Its presence was strongest along the I-35 corridor from San Antonio to Dallas and in southeast Texas, the ADL said.
Flashback: In 2017, officials said they wrapped up the largest case prosecuted in the U.S. focused on white supremacist prison gang members and that they "decimated" the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas in North Texas.
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