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US targeted Black Lives Matter activists in bid to disrupt movement, report finds
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/19/black-lives-matter-policing-prosecutions-race-goverment
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 and beyond last summer after the Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, according to a new report.
Movement leaders and experts said the prosecution of protesters over the past year continued 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 report was released by the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of more than 50 activism and advocacy civil rights groups and professional associations representing Black communities and published in partnership with the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (Clear) clinic at City University of New York (Cuny) School of Law.
“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.
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He truly should be behind bars. 
https://mashable.com/article/capitol-police-trump-riot-black-lives-matter-protest
June 2, 2020: Members of the D.C. National Guard stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, as demonstrators participate in a peaceful protest against police brutality and the death of George Floyd.
June 1, 2020: A protester raises her hands near a line of National Guard soldiers deployed near the White House as demonstrations against George Floyd's death continued.
Many more at link, with MAGA insurrectionists breaking into our Capitol Building as contrast.
June 2, 2020: Members of the D.C. National Guard stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, as demonstrators participate in a peaceful protest against police brutality and the death of George Floyd.
June 1, 2020: A protester raises her hands near a line of National Guard soldiers deployed near the White House as demonstrations against George Floyd's death continued.
Many more at link, with MAGA insurrectionists breaking into our Capitol Building as contrast.