New York City police may have posed as protesters when they infiltrated Black Lives Matter groups and read their text messages, new documents obtained by The Guardian show.
The documents, primarily emails obtained through a freedom of information lawsuit, give greater insight into the lengths the New York Police Department was willing to go to gain information about the activists. The surveillance mentioned in the documents took place in 2014 and 2015, when protests were happening all over the city following the chokehold death of Eric Garner by a police officer.
The records show that police were surveilling groups of protesters as small as seven people. They also obtained access to activists’ text messages showing locations where future protests might take place.
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