I poured through two weeks of docs from the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (police intelligence agency), between when George Floyd was killed while handcuffed face-down in the street, to when the BlueLeaks hacktivist exfiltrated the data https://theintercept.com/2020/08/17/blueleaks-california-ncric-black-lives-matter-protesters/
It turns out, starting May 31 NCRIC's terrorism liaison program began emailing PDFs listing upcoming protests to over 14,400 people, mostly local cops across northern California, emailing this twice a day at 10am and again at 6pm
This PDF listed 46 protests scheduled for June 6 in San Francisco, San Jose, Palo Alto, Berkeley, Oakland, other cities, and 36 other events for following days. The vast majority of events were #BlackLivesMatter protests
"Really what we have here is over-broad collection and dissemination of peoples’ protected First Amendment activity, and it’s untethered to any basis in the law," an @ACLU_NorCal lawyers says. The docs also claim to be exempt from public records request, which isn't true
NCRIC also regularly forwards fear-mongering memos from FBI, DHS, and other feds, containing cherrypicked anecdotes and tweets that make protesters seem scary and dangerous, to these 14k local cops across northern California. Like, consider this tweet https://twitter.com/AnarchistLB/status/1265780248345370624
An LA-based FBI analyst saw it and wrote this report called "Civil Unrest in Response to Death of George Floyd Threatens Law Enforcement Supporters’ Safety". NCRIC then forwarded this document to its list of 14k cops
There's so much more like this too. NCRIC steadily forwarded docs from feds to local cops saying things like this. If cops believe their lives are in danger, this might help explain why their response to peaceful protests have been so brutal and violent
Oh yeah, and one of the documents tries to lay blame for the massive nationwide outrage against police killings of Black people on "foreign influence campaigns"
NCRIC was so busy spying on protesters that it had to postpone its class about spying on cell phones
Local cops across northern California logged into NCRIC and submitted "Suspicious Activity Reports" about local BLM protests, and also requested support monitoring social media related to these protests.

For example take this tweet https://twitter.com/simonvertugo/status/1268045070042689537
A San Jose State University cop posted a SAR under the category "Radicalization/Extremism" saying, "Possible meeting spot for protest activity at SJSU. [...] Has been seen on Twitter under the name @simonvertugo."
Cops from these agencies posted SARs and support requests about BLM protests:

Oakland PD
SFPD
San Benito Co Sheriff
Novato PD
Walnut Creek PD
Sunnyvale Dept of Public Safety
Antioch PD
Fremont PD
Napa POD
Healdsburg PD
Palo Alto PD
Golden Gate Bridge Patrol
Contra Costa College
A group of people wearing black clothes and masks (during a pandemic) were at a gas station in Napa asking about renting vans to drop off in SF. Someone saw them, thought they "looked like a ‘ANTIF[A] or Black Bloc’ group" and it ended up as a SAR
The VAST MAJORITY of SARs related to civil unrest were about BLM protests or suspected antifa activity. But there were a few SARs about fascists too. Like this one, where someone called a gov employee and described his plans to shoot and kill protesters
There were also two instances of police (from @RedwoodCityPD and @MoragaPolice) requesting help protecting racist white female teenagers against doxing/online harassment they faced after making racist statements and using anti-Black racial slurs
BlueLeaks contains SO MUCH evidence of spying on First Amendment protected activities, systemic bias, etc. This was all from NCRIC, but there's also another 150 police/fusion center websites included the hack. Stay tuned for much more reporting
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