"These surveillance reports are likely to influence policing beyond Georgia. Atlanta police have circulated them widely to all sorts of local officials, Georgia counterterrorism agencies, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, and universities. One federal agency in this ecosystem, the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis, has provided Georgia authorities with politicized information characterizing protesters as domestic violent extremists driven by “anti-law enforcement sentiment,” a theme Georgia cited in its racketeering charges. Together, the agencies form an echo chamber of questionable intelligence that portrays dissent on- and offline as terrorism."
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https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/internal-atlanta-police-records-reveal-monitoring-cop-city-opponents