The secret police: A private security group regularly sent Minnesota police misinformation about protestors

I thought I was in a nightmare. She says it was so confusing. The people who were trying to speak were being drowned out. Ruddock said it was grotesque and designed to make him know they were watching him. CRG found a video of her music andblasted it through her neighborhood.

She said she was going to have a panic attack. Ruddock tried to explain the situation to other activists, but many of them didn't know that she was a musician. She doesn't know why she was targeted but she suspects it was because she was taking pictures of the unrest in her neighborhood.

According to three activists we spoke with, CRG played recordings of speeches by Martin Luther King to drown out protests. No formal complaints have been filed against CRG according to the chair of the Minnesota Board of Private detectives and protective agent services. A complaint could lead to an investigation by the agency and revocation of the security license.

A look at the "intel reports"

Ruddock didn't know that CRG was a covert intelligence team for the Minneapolis police department. Emails obtained by MIT Technology Review show that CRG spied on activists and sent reports to the department. A 17-page report titled "Initial Threat Assessment" described the organizers as part of "AntiFA," a term used in far-right discourse to exaggerate the threat posed by left-wing political groups. Ruddock calls the claim that she is one of the leaders of antiFA ridiculous and says she has never been associated with any extremists.

The reports we reviewed are not being published because of the risk of spreading false and potentially defamatory information.

Photographs of Ruddock and other activists are included in some of the reports. Seven Points referred to CRG's cameras in an exchange with the police department. Two days after Smith's death, mugshots of Ruddock and other activists from a mass arrest during a protest were released. Ruddock's charges have been dropped for lack of evidence, and there is a lawsuit against the city.

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