DHS tells the police that joint protest activities are “violent tactics”
In some cases, widespread forecasts may seem to use significant real -world points: in Alvararado, Texas, a alleged ambush at a detention center this week pulled out the fireworks before the eruption of firing on July 4 and fired a police officer. (Close to dozens of arrests carried out, at least 10 on charges of murder.)
Prior to the protests, agencies are increasingly predicting information to identify groups that are subversive ideological wheat or tactically unpredictable. Demonstrators as “rape” may be controlled, arrested or forced to meet.
Social movement researchers widely identify the preventive protest as the departure from the late 20th century approaches that are prioritizing increased, communication, and facilitation. In their place, authorities have increasingly emphasized the control of demonstrations through initial intervention, supervision and disorder – organizers of monitoring organizers, limiting public space and accountability based on perceived risks, not real behavior.
The infrastructure initially designed to combat terrorism is now often helping to monitor street protests, while virtual research units target demonstrators for careful examination based on online expression. Fusion centers, provided through DHS financial assistance, have increasingly issued bulletins that perform slogans, references to police brutality, and correlation events as a sign of potential violence – these evaluations do not enforce clear evidence of criminal intentions.
Supervision of protesters includes the construction of cases (known as “baseball cards”) with analysts using advanced technology tools to prepare social media posts, dependencies, personal networks, and critical public statements of government policy.
Exclusively obtained by Wired, a DHS case in Mahmoud Khalil, a former Colombian graduate student and anti -war activist, shows that analysts show intelligence from the Canary mission, a shadowed black list that anonymous Israeli military and law enforcement supporters.
In the federal court on Wednesday, a senior DHS official acknowledged that, despite the ideological slope of the site, the mysterious budget and unbearable resources, the Canary mission was used to file more than 100 cases for students and researchers.
Threat bulletins can also predict the main agents to predict conflict, shape their situation and decisions on the ground. Following the violent protests in 2020, the San Jose Police Department in California cited “countless intelligence bulletin” received from its local fusion center, DHS and FBI, as a key to understand the “mentality of officers in the days leading up to and overall internal unrest.”
Special bulletins listed by SJPD-which resulted in a $ 620,000 settlement this month-warned the demonstration as possible coverage for “internal terrorists”, warning opportunistic attacks to enforce law and “unconfirmed reports” of U-haul van.
Subsequent reports on Blueleaks-a 269 GB garbage from police internal documents obtained by a source published as an anonymous and published by the Transparency Group, distributes secrets-federal bolts with irreversible claims, vague threats, and vague threats. In the fire, despite a clear flag that lays the “fake” site.
Threat warnings – unattached and typically available to the press – can help enforce law to form a public understanding of the protests before, and provide the basis for legitimizing police offensive responses. Unconfirmed DHS warnings about domestic terrorists who infiltrated domestic terrorists in 2020, which are publicly repeated by the IAEA Secretary of State on Twitter, were widely broadcast and strengthened in media coverage.
Americans are generally opposed to protest repression, but when they support them, fear is often driving force. Experimental research shows that support for the use of less compulsory tactics to what the protesters do is less than their imaging – by officials, media, and through racial and ideological frames.
