black lives matter
Documents Show FBI Monitored Movements of Black Lives Matter Activists
The Intercept reveals that the FBI has developed and implemented a practice of monitoring the physical movements of activists associated with Black Lives Matter. In addition to providing further evidence of FBI tailing nonviolent demonstrators, the piece also sheds light … Read more »
From Bridgeview to Black Lives Matter, Targets May Change, But the Surveillance Remains the Same
Two new reports released in as many weeks, one by WBEZ and the other by Al Jazeera, vividly illustrate how politically motivated policing is a thread that runs through law enforcement from before the start of the war on … Read more »
Internal FBI Documents Conflate Peaceful, Majority-Black Social Movements with Terrorism
A new report from Foreign Policy reveals that the FBI has begun characterizing police accountability and racial equality movements which are primarily comprised of African-Americans as “black identity extremists” or “BIEs” in their internal reports. According to these documents, FBI … Read more »
