FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, three people briefed on the search told MS NOW.
Agents also fanned out across the state, showing up at the homes of the group’s leaders and staff members, carrying some subpoenas and seeking information and electronic devices, according to the three people briefed, two of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive ongoing investigation. Members of the group contacted lawyers on Thursday to determine their legal options, the people said.
Prentiss Haney, a board member of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, told MS NOW Thursday night that agents approached people with connections to the group, including some who had performed basic canvassing and volunteer work, and pressed them for information.
Agents were “basically trying to fish for information,” Haney said.
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The FBI is going back to its roots of being the premiere fascist paramilitary police force for racist oligarchs.
In a sense they never stopped. They still collected dossiers on civil rights leaders all throughout the “good” decades just to see who were potential instigators - community organizers definitely got targeted. Now they’re acting on it.
The FBI murdered Fred Hampton, and they’re suspects in Malcolm and Martin’s assassinations. They had a whole operation to oppose, discredit, and assassinate civil rights leaders. And it ain’t just black folks. They shot Vicky Weaver in the forehead while she was holding her infant child.
Y’all need to stop acting like the FBI are the bad guys all of a sudden. They’ve always been the pig.
Yes, but also it can get worse.
Fucking Gestapo.
So, according to maga, registering to vote is suspicious.
Yes that’s what they think. They hate that Americans get any choice other than them.
Registering minorities is a crime that they’re trying to prove
Registering non citizens is a crime… Minorities are citizens
Secret police (or political police) are police, intelligence or security agencies that engage in covert operations against a government’s political, ideological or social opponents and dissidents. Secret police organizations are characteristic of police states governed by authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. They protect the political power of a dictator or regime and often operate outside the law to repress dissidents and weaken political opposition, frequently using violence.
I’m gonna guess confiscating access to devices is part of a denial of service
Who the fuck signed those subpoenas though?
I’d predict a Trump/federalist society judge.
Wow…uh…
How about this weather huh? Good day for a nice cold bowl of gestapo?
“If we investigate nothing, then we can say that we are investigating something.”
