Feds Targeted BLM Activists to Foil Racial Justice Protests: Report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : In addition to documenting how federal agents "deliberately targeted" Black Lives Matter activists last year to deter people from participating in racial justice protests, the report points to COINTELPRO and other iterations of the federal government's use of surveillance, criminalization, and assassination to undermine the pursuit of racial and economic equality.
40% : "Everyday Americans are now facing prison sentences in more distant locations, higher maximums and mandatory minimums, and no chance of parole as a result of exercising their First Amendment rights."
40% : "Everyday Americans are now facing prison sentences in more distant locations, higher maximums and mandatory minimums, and no chance of parole as a result of exercising their First Amendment rights," she said.
35% : As Black Lives Matter protests grew across the U.S. following the police murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, so did the federal government's persecution of activists who marched in support of racial justice.

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