Say his name!

Dante Wright!

Say his name!

Last April, after Dante Wright was shot and killed by police in Brooklyn Center,

Minnesota.

Protesters flooded the streets in what's become a sad, angry, and familiar ritual.

They chanted, they marched, they yelled at the what's become a sad, angry, and familiar ritual.

They chanted, they marched, they yelled at the cops, they held up signs reading Black Lives Matter.

But what those protesters didn't know, what they couldn't see, according to reporter Tate Ryan Mosley, is that they were being surveilled by the police.

I think it's definitely a reasonable concern that if you were a protester, any of those nights in the second week of April,

that there was some sort of data collected about you.

Tate writes for the MIT Technology Review, and she and her colleague,

Sam Richards, found that after the killing of George Floyd, law enforcement in Minnesota built a high-tech operation to monitor protesters, activists, and journalists.

According to Tate's reporting, they use tools to scour social media, track cell phones,

and amassed detailed images of people's faces.

People who weren't charged with crimes.

People who were exercising free speech.

People who became unwitting test subjects for a new kind of policing.

Not only are we kind of in this crisis moment, we're also in a transformative moment, I think,

for police technology.

Today on the show, what Tate found in Minnesota and why it might be coming to a police force

near you.

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