NYPD Spied on Black Lives Matter During Eric Garner Protests — But Won’t Release Any Info, Group Says

 

By Victoria Bekiempis and Thomas Tracy

Members of Black Lives Matter appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday to demand the NYPD release information on how it monitored protests on high-profile police-involved deaths.

Protesters said the NYPD used undercover surveillance at the demonstrations over the chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Island and shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

The group argues that the NYPD bow to a Freedom of Information law request to release details of any surveillance of protests that took place in Grand Central Terminal between November 2014 and November 2015.

So far, the NYPD has refused to hand over the documents. 

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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)