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NYPD sent undercover officers to Black Lives Matter protest, records reveal
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: October 16th, 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/29/nypd-black-l...
Legal papers filed by the New York police department reveal that the department sent its own undercover officers to protests led by Black Lives Matter after the death of Eric Garner. The NYPD documents also show that it collected multimedia records about the protests. The revelations come from the same records request that led to the Intercepts release of documents last summer showing that MTA and Metro-North transit police had regularly spied on Black Lives Matter protesters in and around Grand Central, deploying plainclothes officers to monitor demonstrations, track their movements, and share photos of activists. The NYPDs newly revealed operations are potential constitutional violations. The fear and disarming effect caused by undercovers being assigned to what were and continue to be extraordinarily peaceful protests is disturbing, said MJ Williams, one of the attorneys involved in the records request. As someone who was present at the protests, its disturbing to know the NYPD may have a file on me, ready to be used or to prevent me from getting a job simply because Ive been active in some political capacity. The MTA and Metro-North disclosures from last summer revealed that transit police tracked activists locations and shared images of some activists. If similar multimedia images are being held by the NYPD, they could be a violation of the NYPDs protest monitoring rules ... which are supposed to prevent the department from deploying undercovers or collecting images of protesters solely to keep tabs on their political activity.
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