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Philadelphia Police Requested Federal Agents To 'Infiltrate' BLM Protests, Emails Show Philadelphia Police Requested Federal Agents To 'Infiltrate' BLM Protests, Emails Show
Philadelphia Police Requested Federal Agents To 'Infiltrate' BLM Protests, Emails Show The Philadelphia police department has asked federal agents to ‘infiltrate’ social justice marches last June, according to emails obtained by DC think tank Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. A Philadelphia police sergeant asked a Drug Enforcement Agency agent to assign personnel to “infiltrate crowds for intel purposes” on June 2, the emails say. Within 30 minutes of receiving the email, the DEA agent obtained approval from Principal Deputy DEA Administrator Preston Grubbs -- the agency’s second highest ranking official -- to conduct “covert surveillance from within prot…

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