Recent released FBI documents reveal what so many policing incidents related to protests have suggested: To protest government policies and actions in the US is now regarded as a criminal activity and protestors are treated accordingly.
FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even though the agency acknowledges in documents that organizers explicitly called for peaceful protest and did “not condone the use of violence” at occupy protests.