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felt like history in the making... then the protests just stopped
- ↑ Aaronson, Trevor; Hall, Zebbodios; German, Mike (February 7, 2023). "COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd". Democracy Now! (Interview). Interviewed by Amy Goodman . Retrieved February 7, 2023.
'Alphabet Boys' documents how the FBI disrupted racial justice organizing after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, including paying an informant at least $20,000 to infiltrate and spy on activist groups in Denver, Colorado. The informant also encouraged activists to purchase guns and commit violence, echoing the FBI's use of the COINTELPRO program to sabotage left-wing activist groups in the 1960s
- ↑ Weill, Kelly (February 7, 2023). "How an FBI Informant Derailed Denver's BLM Movement". The Daily Beast. Retrieved February 7, 2023.
Windecker made more than $20,000 working for the FBI during the summer of 2020... appeared on the Denver protest scene in the summer of 2020, when the nation was reeling from the on-camera murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. In Denver, Floyd's killing also ignited a simmering anger over the death of Elijah McClain, a young Black man from nearby Aurora. McClain died in 2019 after police violently subdued him...
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