How I Exposed an Undercover Cop (the author of the article, not me personally)

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/how-i-exposed-undercover-cop-1376145313

She was an undercover cop who called herself “Missy.” When I first met her four years ago, I couldn’t have known that the small-framed woman with spiky brown hair and intense eyes was anything but a fellow activist showing up for a protest in Washington, D.C.I certainly didn’t know she was actually Nicole Rizzi, an undercover cop ordered to secretly spy on peaceful protesters, violate our freedom of speech and assembly, and disregard our right to privacy.

Sure, I thought something was odd about her. She stared just a little too long. Her irreverent sense of humor made the hair stand up on the backs of a lot of necks. Her favorite t-shirt read “OBEY” and it wasn’t clear that she wore it for the irony.

So sure, I did suspect from the start that she could be an FBI agent, a police officer, or something else. But if you start being suspicious of newcomers, every honest newbie will look like an infiltrator. I kept my paranoia mostly to myself.When I looked at her rippling arm muscles, I wondered whether they came from workouts at some spy academy or a downtown yoga studio.

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It’s the first case that promises to prove that the police systematically spies on activists in our nation’s capital.

Now that we’ve blown officer Nicole Rizzi’s cover, “Missy” won’t be snooping on any more protests. But our First Amendment rights will continue to be thrown under the bus unless we fight to defend them.

[Recursion]

1. Avoid Shepard Fairey shirts, I guess (nt)

[brooklynite]

2. How does "one" cop infiltrating "one" activist group add up to "systematic spying"?

[OutNow]

3. Read the news articles online - it was more than one protest group

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/15419/exclusive_activists_identify_dc_cop_who_infiltrated_bangladesh_protesters/


The cop in question attended lots of protests and participated in the planning and organization for other protests where the cops were clearly aware of the time and place of protests ahead of time. So she was doing more than observing, she was infiltrating, in violation of a 2004 law that defined strict rules for how cops deal with protest groups. And if one cop was "outed" you can be sure there are other violators.

When organizations that are responsible for upholding the law feel that can ignore laws that protect protect the rights of citizens, whether it is the Washington D.C. cops, the FBI or the NSA, we must support the investigative reporters and whistle blowers that uncover their crimes.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Infiltrators are like potato chips.

TPTB can never stop with just one.