> "Clear through lines between the summer 2020 uprisings and COINTELPRO"
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> @/aaron_con_choco
and I [@/kandistmallett] investigated federal arrests of activists in Little Rock.
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> Police, FBI, DHS tracked them for months. Then some got charged w/ 30 year minimums.

Full article by Aaron Miguel Cantú and Kandist Mallett
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/movement-racial-justice-police-arkansas/

#LittleRock #Arkansas #CoIntelPro #DawnJeffrey #MujeraBenjaminLungAho #ReneaGoddard #LobaEspinosaVillegas #EmilyNowlin #GeorgeFloydProtests #Antifascism #Antirascism #AntiBlackRacism

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COINTELPRO never stopped, and people acting for racial justice in the South are routinely targeted and crushed for their resistance, often in silence.

Please share this story with your networks.

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> The Nation and Type Investigations reviewed hundreds of law enforcement e-mails obtained through records requests. They show that police began monitoring [30-year-old Brittany Dawn Jeffrey] and other protesters just days after Floyd’s murder, apparently for participating in peaceful demonstrations. This surveillance continued for months.
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> It’s not unusual for police to monitor and attend protests, but what’s troubling, notes Holly Dickson, the executive director of the ACLU of Arkansas, is the level of surveillance that Jeffrey and her fellow activists were subjected to. “Anytime we have seen this kind of overreaction by law enforcement officers” in Little Rock, “it’s in response to racial justice movements and gatherings organized by members of the Black community,” Dickson said.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/movement-racial-justice-police-arkansas/