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FBI Undercover Teams Infiltrated Portland Racial Justice Protests

HeadlineDec 23, 2021

The New York Times is reporting the FBI sent surveillance teams to infiltrate racial justice and anti-police brutality protests in Portland, Oregon, starting in July 2020. The FBI agents, who were originally deployed to protect Portland’s federal courthouse, quickly widened the scope of their mission. Undercover agents participated in demonstrations, tailed vandalism suspects and secretly recorded video of activists.

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