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JUNE 19, 2020

Apparently, the government was watching. The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used helicopters, airplanes, and drones in 15 cities to monitor demonstrations that protested the killing of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis who died after a police officer knelt on his neck to… Read more.

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APRIL 19, 2021

Shortly after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd last year, 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… Read more.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

A group of Democratic lawmakers on Thursday urged the government’s privacy and civil liberties watchdog to launch an investigation into claims of government surveillance at protests against police violence and racial inequality spurred this year by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. Read more.

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JULY 17, 2020

Nearly two dozen House Democrats signed letters on Friday demanding answers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regarding the use of aerial surveillance deployed to monitor protesters after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd in May. Read more.

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Mashable VR

MAY 18, 2022

Interviews range from the concerned family members who warned the FBI about the potential violence they were hearing about to the government officials who listened and tried to send out alarms about the domestic terror threat to even some Trump supporters who attended the rally. In the same way podcasts like Comedy Bang!

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