NYPD infiltrated Black Lives Matter... COINTELPRO Style

The way they got King, Malcolm, and Khalid is the exact way Blacks are being infiltrated now. COINTELPRO continues...

The New York Police Department used undercover cops to gain intimate access to the organizing core of the city's Black Lives Matter activists in 2014 and 2015, revealing to police protesters' plans and trusted communications, new documents show.

The documents, mostly emails between undercover NYPD cops and NYPD officials, were ordered to be released following a February court ruling. The new materials show the extent of surveillance employed by the largest police force in the US against protesters seeking to point out the disproportionate impact of state violence on people of color, especially Blacks, in New York City.

By embedding cops into Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters' decision-making operations, the NYPD was able to gain possession of group text exchanges and organizing details that revealed the basic plans of BLM protesters in 2014 and 2015 following the NYPD killing of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in July 2014.

One email from an NYPD official shows that that the department was monitoring an NYPD cop who was embedded within a small group of BLM protesters on their way to Grand Central Station. This type of approach allowed the NYPD to understand the group's movements and plans ahead of time.

The new documents, in which all dates were redacted prior to public release, also include pictures and a short video of Grand Central demonstrations. In one photo, an undercover cop identified a person in a brown jacket as the "main protester."

BLM protesters and supporters said the level of access gained by the NYPD amounted to a covertly compromised inner circle of demonstration planners amid a protest movement that was overtly viewed with suspicion, if not outright opposed, by the NYPD and much of the power structure in New York City and across the nation.

Keegan Stephan, an activist and law student involved in Grand Central demonstrations and who has assisted in the effort to obtain the documents, said the new revelations indicate a chilling degree of deception amongst trusted organizers. Stephan reported that the documents further expose undercover infiltration of social movements, a known, "disruptive tactic" within protest policing.

Last month, attorneys uncovered evidence showing that the NYPD recorded BLM demonstrations and years earlier even Occupy Wall Street protests hundreds of times without proper authorization.

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