Posted on Aug 22, 2021
Trump and Barr ‘deliberately targeted’ Black Lives Matter protesters, report finds
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The US Justice Department and federal law enforcement “deliberately targeted” Black Lives Matter demonstrators under the “express direction” of Donald Trump and former US Attorney General William Barr, according to a sweeping analysis from advocacy group Movement for Black Lives.
In nearly every prosecution, cases related to protests from 31 May through 25 October “resulted in hundreds of organisers and activists facing years in federal prison with no chance of parole” after federal law enforcement “exploited the expansive federal criminal code” to assert jurisdiction over protest-related cases that “bore no federal interest,” according to the report.
The report – which examines 326 criminal cases brought by federal prosecutors in the wake of 2020 protests amid an uprising against police violence and racial injustice after the police murder of George Floyd – appears to “largely corroborate what Black organisers 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 says.
In nearly every prosecution, cases related to protests from 31 May through 25 October “resulted in hundreds of organisers and activists facing years in federal prison with no chance of parole” after federal law enforcement “exploited the expansive federal criminal code” to assert jurisdiction over protest-related cases that “bore no federal interest,” according to the report.
The report – which examines 326 criminal cases brought by federal prosecutors in the wake of 2020 protests amid an uprising against police violence and racial injustice after the police murder of George Floyd – appears to “largely corroborate what Black organisers 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 says.
Trump and Barr ‘deliberately targeted’ Black Lives Matter protesters, report finds
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Ummmm, if they were investigating people committing violent crimes why is that cause for a headline?
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MSgt Dale Johnson
SGT Charlie Lee - I read the article, really didn't see how there was any other actions where they could show a difference is how violent crimes were investigated versus how BLM riots were investigated.
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SGT Jerry Hoy
TSgt Ann Smith The FBI just released their report on the Jan 6th and and confirmed to those of us with a brain that everything you've been told about an insurrection was a lie. Just t like the Russian Hoax and the many other lies that people such as yourself get roped into. The only person to die that day was an unarmed Trump supporter. The majority of Americans favor investigating last summers riots as opposed to Jan 6th.
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