Memphis Police Accused of Using Fake Accounts to Surveil Black Activists
Documents appear to show police kept dossiers on dozens of Memphis-area activists along with lists of their associates
Memphis activist and protester Keedran Franklin already knew the city’s police had an eye out for him.
At local demonstrations, he’s frequently the first person to be arrested. Sometimes officers sit outside his office in unmarked cars waiting for him to leave, Franklin and his attorney Scott Kramer claim. In public, officers who Franklin has never met come up to him and address him by name, Kramer said, “just to let [Franklin] know that they [the officers] all know who he is.”
But after all that, Franklin was still surprised to see just how deep it went.
SOURCE ⇒ THEGUARDIAN
