The FBI’s use of an informant to infiltrate Black Lives Matter in Denver during the wave of protests over the 2020 police killing of George Floyd has prompted concern in Congress that the federal agency is once again abusing its powers to harass and intimidate minority groups.
There are a limited number of methods available for keeping people shut out of protests and several of the more effective ones are felonies.
:freeze-peach: is a great weapon for the feds bc how do you bar someone from a public protest without doing crimes to them, especially if they can't be shamed out of the space?