Revealed: Police and FBI Spied On Black Lives Matter Organizers Ahead of Mall of America Protests

‘We will not be intimidated,’ declares Minneapolis chapter of Black Lives Matter

Written by Sarah Lazare, CommonDreams staff writer. Published February 13, 2015.

How big is MOA? Big enough to hold over 3,000 protesters! Image via Facebook.

Participants in a nonviolent Black Lives Matter protest at the Mall of America last December were not only aggressively confronted by law enforcement and heavily prosecuted by the Bloomington attorney’s office, but they were also—as it turns out—preemptively spied on by local police and the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. Continue reading →