Surveillance mechanisms used on Muslims are also deployed against BLM activists

Evidence

Hansford, who was in Ferguson, Missouri, during the first wave of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2014, noted that the protests following the killing of George Floyd were “far larger than… in 2014, largely because of the international solidarity infrastructure built since Mike Brown was killed.” In addition to international solidarity, the same surveillance mechanisms deployed against Muslims in the United States are extended to silence and prosecute BLM activists, linking these heavily policed communities in myriad ways. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1118

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: War on Terror policing reused COINTELPRO tactics first deployed against Black activists — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 263