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CounterSpin Interview with Nusrat Choudhury on FBI Targeting of Black Activists
FAIR.org
April 12, 2019
"The FBI Appears to Be Engaged In a Modern-Day Version of COINTELPRO"
Janine Jackson interviewed Nusrat Choudhury about FBI targeting of black activists for the April 12, 2019, episode of CounterSpin.
This is a lightly edited transcript.
JANINE JACKSON:
In the summer of 2017, as demonstrations roiled St. Louis, Missouri, in response to yet another police officer who killed yet another black person, the FBI issued an intelligence assessment that purported to designate a new domestic terror threat:
"Black Identity Extremists"
And they predicted that:
"perceptions of unjust treatment of African Americans and the perceived unchallenged illegitimate actions of law enforcement will inspire premeditated attacks against law enforcement."
Does that sound like a bizarre and dangerously imprecise targeting of people of color engaged in righteous and constitutionally protected protest?
It sure does!
Read more of transcript,
Google:
"The FBI Appears to Be Engaged in a Modern-Day Version of COINTELPRO"
Note:
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) produces the radio program, "CounterSpin," where the above interview was broadcast on April 12, 2019.
(An MP3 link to the original radio program is also available)
FAIR.org
April 12, 2019
"The FBI Appears to Be Engaged In a Modern-Day Version of COINTELPRO"
Janine Jackson interviewed Nusrat Choudhury about FBI targeting of black activists for the April 12, 2019, episode of CounterSpin.
This is a lightly edited transcript.
JANINE JACKSON:
In the summer of 2017, as demonstrations roiled St. Louis, Missouri, in response to yet another police officer who killed yet another black person, the FBI issued an intelligence assessment that purported to designate a new domestic terror threat:
"Black Identity Extremists"
And they predicted that:
"perceptions of unjust treatment of African Americans and the perceived unchallenged illegitimate actions of law enforcement will inspire premeditated attacks against law enforcement."
Does that sound like a bizarre and dangerously imprecise targeting of people of color engaged in righteous and constitutionally protected protest?
It sure does!
Read more of transcript,
Google:
"The FBI Appears to Be Engaged in a Modern-Day Version of COINTELPRO"
Note:
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) produces the radio program, "CounterSpin," where the above interview was broadcast on April 12, 2019.
(An MP3 link to the original radio program is also available)
