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Minneapolis Cops Used Fake Accounts to Spy on Innocent Black People
Officers of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) engaged in surveillance of local Black leaders and organisations “without a public safety objective,” the Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) found. The racist misuse of state authority was just one among a litany of other abuses that included “killing community members of colour and Indigenous community members”…
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CBP Releases Video From Predator Drone Deployed Over George Floyd Protests
Shortly after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) flew a Predator drone over the city in an effort to surveil the ongoing protests against police brutality occurring there. The drone, which took off from Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota and flew in a…