There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5th but I think it's just the holiday period.

It's just for me it's the most romantic period and I think anyone who's listened to my

records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

Join in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

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 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 Wright's 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 used 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.

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