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Movement for Black Lives: Feds targeted BLM protesters
The Associated r ^ | August 18, 2021 | By KAT STAFFORD

Posted on 08/18/2021 1:47:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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 last summer in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, according to a new report released Wednesday by The Movement for Black Lives.

Movement leaders and experts said the prosecution of protesters over the past year continues 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 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.

In the report, published in partnership with the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility clinic at City University of New York School of Law, The Movement for Black Lives is calling for amnesty for all protesters involved in the nationwide protests.

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KEYWORDS: anarchists; blm; marxists; racism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Does professional baseball have a stance on this Movement For black Lives (MBL) ?

Then papers could say
MBL No BLM Says MLB.


21 posted on 08/18/2021 3:20:44 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What do black people have some sort of privilege or something that they are exempt from the law?


22 posted on 08/18/2021 3:36:49 PM PDT by Bloodandgravy (The mob is the mother of tyrants.)
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To: doubled

You have FRmail...


23 posted on 08/18/2021 5:32:50 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Peeeshaw.


24 posted on 08/18/2021 8:31:50 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

To disrupt the global movement, it was only suppose to effect us and to get rid of trump


25 posted on 08/19/2021 3:07:28 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (“When the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government fears the people you have)
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