The FBI does a lot more than “encourage them to act out”.
Carefully read this Wikipedia article on COINTELPRO:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
These are standard FBI tactics—lets identify some of them:
—”surveilling activists and then releasing negative personal information to the public”
—”Break down internal organization by creating conflicts (for example, by having agents exacerbate racial tensions, or send anonymous letters to try to create conflicts)”
—”Create dissension between groups (for example, by spreading rumors that other groups were stealing money)”
—”Restrict access to public resources (for example, by pressuring non-profit organizations to cut off funding or material support)”
—”Restrict the ability to organize protest (for example, through agents promoting violence against police during planning and at protests)”
—”Restrict the ability of individuals to participate in group activities (for example, by character assassinations, false arrests, surveillance)”
I would also add that the FBI will recommend the use of violence and will provide the guns, ammunition and other weaponry to “make it happen”.
This is just a partial list.
A couple of dumb teenage losers are miraculously transformed into a major terrorist threat by these FBI tactics.