Truth ｜ Send undercover and engage in ＂kidnapping＂, and the United States has made a slap in the face of its ＂beautiful scenery＂

On May 25th, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, people took part in mourning activities to commemorate the third anniversary of Freud’s murder. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)

　　For a long time, the US government frequently incited riots in other countries, claiming that it was a "beautiful scenic spot". When similar incidents occurred in the United States, how did the US government handle them? In 2020, after Freud, a black man, was killed by a white policeman on his knees, the "black life is also life" protest movement swept across the United States. According to the American investigation website Interception, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently filed a lawsuit accusing the US federal government and local governments of abusing their power in the "Black Life is Life" movement in 2020.

　　Since the "black life is also life" movement in 2020, many foreign media have reported various "small moves" of the US government. Placing undercover is a common practice. CBS reported in February this year that Trevor aronson, an American investigative journalist, revealed in a podcast program that the FBI paid a secret undercover, and the FBI insider instigated the protesters to commit violence and tried to frame them. According to the FBI documents, recordings and protester’s testimony, the insider’s name is Windeck, who was convicted of sexual assault. In the summer of 2020, the FBI paid him tens of thousands of dollars to pretend to be a protester. The informant eventually became one of the protest leaders in Denver and encouraged violent protests. The FBI also plans to do the same in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and install a protester. Aronson said that some protesters recalled that Windeck was a strong white man who boasted that he had fought overseas and learned military skills. During the protests, he was nicknamed "instructor". In fact, not long after, some protesters discovered that Windeck might be an informant, and Windeck responded by recording a video in which Windeck threatened to "kill everyone". Windeck also asked a protester to buy a gun for him. Nearly a year later, the protester was arrested.The reason is to transfer guns to felons in violation of gun laws. According to the February report of the American Daily Beast, the newspaper confirmed aronson’s document. Windeck had threatened to sue aronson, but after learning that aronson had evidence, he gave up. The newspaper also found that Windeck had established working relations with the Aurora City Police Department and the Denver City Police Department. During the protests, Windeck’s radical behavior made many protesters feel uncomfortable. He encouraged the destruction of government buildings. These violent activities he organized always attracted the police, but he always escaped from the net.

　　The British "Guardian" pointed out in a report in February that it is not uncommon for the FBI to play this game. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI, instructed agents to "expose, disturb, mislead, discredit or otherwise suppress" American dissident political groups, especially African-American political groups. One of the FBI’s favorite tricks is to let undercover spread rumors that the leader of the protest group is also an FBI undercover. This method was once used to deal with the Black Panther Party, an American black civil rights group, and now it is used to crack down on the "Black Life is Life" movement. Windeck spread the seeds of doubt among the protesters when his identity was about to be revealed. Protesters are worried about the existence of other informants, and the unity between protest groups has been severely hit, making it difficult to trust each other.

　　In addition to using undercover as eyes and ears, the US government also used a lot of resources to monitor the protesters. According to The New York Times’s report in May this year, the FBI used "Section 702" to conduct surveillance and searched the identity information of 133 protesters to check whether there was "information related to counter-terrorism". However, it turned out that the two had nothing to do with each other. The website of Washington Civic Responsibility and Ethics Organization published in 2021 that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) approved more than 50 secret surveillance operations, and they cooperated with local police stations to provide air, vehicle and even undercover support. According to the technology website The Verge2022 reported in 2022, the FBI also used the "geo-fence search warrant" in Seattle to ask Google for the mobile phone information of the protesters, including GPS data, WiFi and Bluetooth information, so as to locate the protesters, and Google agreed to hand over the relevant data to the FBI.

　　The monitoring of protesters by American intelligence agencies did not begin until 2020. According to the report of "Interception" in 2018, in 2014, the "Black Life is Life" movement also rose in the United States, and the FBI closely followed the activists and monitored the relevant vehicles and residences. Moreover, the FBI has also written a report on "black identity extremists", pointing the finger at black activists. Foreign Policy reported in 2017 that many scholars thought the report was racist, and the FBI tried to bring different groups and individuals into a certain "ideology" and regarded it as a threat.

　　In response to black protests, the U.S. government also used the power of violent organs. The first is the irregular arrest. According to a report by National Public Radio (NPR) in 2020, federal law enforcement officers used vehicles without police car signs to detain protesters in Portland. Several videos showed that the police drove into the crowd, arrested some people without explaining the reasons, and then drove away. Ken cucinelli, then Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, admitted the act, arguing that it was done to ensure police safety. Jenn Carson, then interim executive director of ACLU, believed that arresting people with unmarked vehicles was "kidnapping". Moreover, although the police claimed that the arrest was to protect government property, some protesters who were not near the government building were also arrested. A protester said that he did not spray paint on the government building or illuminate the police with a laser pen, but he was still arrested, and the police did not tell him why. After being "thrown" into a truck, he was covered with his face all the time and his personal belongings were searched by the police.

　　Then there is the disproportionate deployment of police force. According to a report by the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) in 2021, in the "Capitol Hill riots" incident, the then Acting Secretary of Defense Miller only approved the deployment of less than 6,200 National Guard soldiers, while in the "Black Life is Life" movement, only 43,000 National Guard soldiers were deployed nationwide in late May. The Associated Press reported in 2021 that in the "Black Life is Life" movement, the police used tear gas, rubber bullets and hand-to-hand combat with protesters, and more than 14,000 people were arrested.

　　The motive of the United States to incite riots in other countries is often to subvert the political power and undermine stability. When the governments of other countries react normally, the United States raises the banner of "democracy" and "human rights" to support the mob. However, when the black civil rights groups in the United States really face great injustice and oppose police violence and racial discrimination through protests, the US government is like an enemy, trying every means to obstruct the destruction, and the slogans of "democracy" and "human rights" are completely forgotten. With such a "double standard", how can the "beautiful scenery" of the United States be promoted all over the world?

　　(Text/What Memory)