A victim of violence inspired by a controversial far-left nonprofit told Fox News Digital he knew the man who shot-up his workplace was motivated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) before the suspect confessed.The SPLC has recently come under Justice Department scrutiny for allegedly funneling millions to extremist organizations that they told donors they were fighting — including funding events like KKK cross burnings and the infamous Charlottesville "United the Right" rally in 2017.Tony Perkins is the president of the Family Research Council (FRC), a conservative nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., that was labeled a "hate group" in 2010 by the SPLC for claims it was an anti-LGBT organization.Just two years later, on Aug.15, 2012, disaster struck.Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, speaks on the last day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 21, 2016.
(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)Perkins was in a meeting when the building's security system was triggered.FOCUS ON THE FAMILY’S JIM DALY REJECTS SPLC ‘HATE GROUP’ LABEL: ‘THIS ISN’T HATE, IT’S THE LOVE OF CHRIST’"The doors closed on our floor, and I heard some commotion, and so I ran out to see what it was, and was told that there was a shooting downstairs," he recalled of the horrific incident in an interview with Fox News Digital.He ran down the stairs into the lobby, and saw the carnage."By the time I got down there, the police had arrived, and so we saw Leo Johnson, who was our building manager, who was in a pool of blood," said Perkins.HOSTILITY AGAINST CHURCHES A 'GROWING TREND,' AS STUDY FINDS HUNDREDS OF ATTACKS ON U.S.CHURCHES IN 2024FBI personnel enter the Family Research Council office after a shooting in Washington on Aug.
15, 2012.A gunman wounded a security guard at the conservative Christian lobbying group's headquarters, and other guards wrestled the gunman to the ground before he was taken into custody.
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