Movement for Black Lives: Feds targeted BLM protesters
Source: AP
By KAT STAFFORD
The federal government deliberately targeted Black Lives Matter protesters via heavy-handed criminal prosecutions in an attempt to disrupt and discourage the global movement that swept the nation last summer in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, according to a new report released Wednesday by The Movement for Black Lives.
Movement leaders and experts said the prosecution of protesters over the past year continues a century-long practice by the federal government, rooted in structural racism, to suppress Black social movements via the use of surveillance tactics and other mechanisms.
“The empirical data and findings in this report largely corroborate what Black organizers have long known intellectually, intuitively, and from lived experience about the federal government’s disparate policing and prosecution of racial justice protests and related activity,” the report stated.
The report, which was first shared with The Associated Press, argues that as the uprisings in the summer of 2020 increased, so did police presence, the deployment of federal agents and prosecution of protesters.
FILE - In this June 4, 2020, file photo, demonstrators protest near the White House in Washington, over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. The federal government deliberately targeted Black Lives Matter protesters via heavy-handed criminal prosecutions in an attempt to disrupt and discourage the global movement that swept the nation last summer in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, according to a new report released Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, by The Movement for Black Lives. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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for a structurally, culturally and systemically racist society. 402 years in the making of this epic...
Slavery, mutilation hangings with a picnic atmosphere, topped off with a burning of the bodies. Or just left hanging as carrion for the predators. Fast forward. Put in the back of a metal police van unshackled, driven at high speed until bounced around till dead. Be going for a job in Texas and get stopped for a traffic violation. In a dispute, she gets thrown in a jail cell. 'Found' hanged 3 days later. Be an EMT, who saved many lives shot many times and killed in an alleged drug raid at the wrong house. Black man suspected of passing counterfeit bills. I never choked to death by a now-imprisoned police officer. Imprisonment is very rare in a long string of attacks, beatings, murders, executions of unarmed and non-violent POC, African-American specifically by, usually, Caucasian LEO's. Hell an 11-year-old called upon to the police by who knows who killed 1.5 seconds after the arrival of police. Had a toy gun playing with others in a park. Even white citizens can get in on the act. Trayvon Martin was murdered by a pig called zimmerman.
Yep, SOP.
I don't forget the bible boy and his entourage moving to a church during demonstrations because of police brutality. Protestors violently moved for that POS and his photo op. The stories on that violence. Suppressed in MSM. Wouldn't want to upset the gentile, perfumed hankie to the nose folks, now would we?
This SOP will ALWAYS be America with a waxing and waning of local, state and national leaders administering the law.