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How Minnesota Spied On Protesters

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

When Minnesota's Operation Safety Net, a coordinated effort among nine Minnesota law enforcement agencies, was announced in February 2021, its mission was to ensure the trial of Derek Chauvin would proceed peacefully. It also promised to protect people's right to gather and demonstrate peacefully.

Did Operation Safety Net keep its promise?


Guest: Tate Ryan-Mosley, reporter for MIT Tech review

Host: Lizzie O'Leary


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1:13.1

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

1:18.4

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

1:27.2

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

1:35.1

But what those protesters didn't know, what they couldn't see, according to reporter

1:39.3

Tate Ryan Mosley, is that they were being surveilled by the police.

1:42.8

I think it's definitely a reasonable concern that if you were a protester, any of those nights

1:51.1

in the second week of April, that there was some sort of data collected about you.

1:55.6

Tate writes for the MIT Technology Review. And she and her colleague Sam Richards found that after

2:01.2

the killing of George Floyd, law enforcement in Minnesota built a high-tech operation to monitor

2:06.8

protesters, activists, and journalists.

2:09.2

According to Tate's reporting, they used tools to scour social media,

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